Adaptively controlled supercontinuum pulse from a microstructure fiber for two-photon excited fluorescence microscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 3023-3030

  Tada, Junji ^a   Kono, Taiki ^a   Suda, Akira ^b   Mizuno, Hideaki ^c   Miyawaki, Atsushi ^c   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^b   Kannari, Fumihiko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PROTEINS;

FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; SUPERCONTINUUM PULSES; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 34547308769     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.003023     Document Type: Article

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