Two-photon bioimaging with picosecond optical pulses from a semiconductor laser

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3467-3471

  Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^a   Guo, Hengchang ^a   Yoda, Takuya ^a,b   Takashima, Keijiro ^a   Sato, Ki Ichi ^a,c   Taniguchi, Hirokazu ^d   Ito, Hiromasa ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OPTOQUEST CO LTD   (Japan)

^c Tohoku Electronic Industrial CoLtd   (Japan)

^d Mitsubishi Cable Industries Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; HARMONIC GENERATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER PULSES; PHOTONS;

ACTIN FILAMENTS; BIOIMAGING; SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 33645804019     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.003467     Document Type: Article

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