Two-photon microscopy with wavelength switchable fiber laser excitation

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 9825-9831

  Unruh, Jay R ^a   Price, E Shane ^a   Molla, Roque Gagliano ^b   Stehno Bittel, Lisa ^c   Johnson, Carey K ^a   Hui, Rongqing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b University of Kansas   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

FLUORESCENCE IMAGES; LASER EXCITATION; SCANNING FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; TWO-PHOTON SCANNING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33750349766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009825     Document Type: Article

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