Effect of pulse shape on the efficiency of multiphoton processes: Implications for biological microscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 362-367

  Bardeen, Christopher J ^a,d   Yakovlev, Vladislav V ^a,e   Squier, Jeff A ^b   Wilson, Kent R ^a   Carpenter, Scott D ^c   Weber, Peter M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER PULSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

ACOUSTO OPTIC PULSE SHAPER; SPECTRAL WINDOW SHAPES; TITANIUM SAPPHIRE LASER; TWO PHOTON FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0032599383     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.429937     Document Type: Article

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