Two-photon fluorescence microscopy with a diode-pumped Cr: LiSAF laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2481-2483

  Robertson, G ^a   Armstrong, D ^a   Dymott, M J P ^a   Ferguson, A L ^a   Hogg, G L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b Maylands Avenue ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY ABSORPTION; FLUORESCENCE; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; PHOTONS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

ARGON ION LASERS; DEPTH PENETRATION; TWO PHOTON FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0031118487     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.002481     Document Type: Article

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