Two-photon bioimaging with a multi-kilowatt peak-power optical pulse source using a 1-μm wavelength mode-locked semiconductor laser

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6860, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Guo, Hengchang ^a   Takashima, Keijiro ^a   Sato, Aya ^a   Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^a   Mure, Masahito ^b   Iseki, Yuji ^b   Tsubokawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fiber amplifiers; Fluorescence microscopy; Fluorescent proteins; Medical and biological imaging; Multiphoton processes; Picosecond phenomena; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONS; PROTEINS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

(140.4480)OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; BIO-IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES; GATING PULSES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS (MGFP); HYBRID MODES; MODE-LOCKED; MOUSE BRAIN; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY (MPM); OPTICAL PULSE SOURCES; OPTICAL PULSES; OPTICAL-PULSE REPETITION RATE; PEAK POWERS; PICO SECONDS; REPETITION RATES; TWO PHOTONS; TWO STAGES; TWO-PHOTON MICROSCOPY (TPM); YB DOPED FIBERS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 42149188209     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.762922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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