Excitation beyond the monochromatic laser limit: Simultaneous 3-D confocal and multiphoton microscopy with a tapered fiber as white-light laser source

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Betz, Timo ^a   Teipel, Jörn ^b   Koch, Daniel ^a   Härtig, Wolfgang ^a   Guck, Jochen ^a   Käs, Josef ^a   Giessen, Harald ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal; Microscopy; Multiphoton; Supercontinuum; White light

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES; MOLECULES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUOROPHORES; MONOCHROMATIC LASER; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; WHITE-LIGHT LASER SOURCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33645461603     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2114788     Document Type: Article

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