Developing compact multiphoton systems using femtosecond fiber lasers

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Tang, Shuo ^a   Liu, Jian ^b   Krasieva, Tatiana B ^c   Chen, Zhongping ^c   Tromberg, Bruce J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PolarOnyx Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

femtosecond fiber lasers; multiphoton microscopy; second harmonic generation; two photon excited fluorescence

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; HUMAN SKIN; LASER PULSE DURATION; MULTI-PHOTON MICROSCOPY; MULTIPHOTON IMAGING; MULTIPHOTON SYSTEMS; RAT TAIL TENDON; REPETITION RATE; TWO-PHOTON EXCITED FLUORESCENCE;

FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBERS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROPHORES; HARMONIC GENERATION; PHOTONS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; TISSUE;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

RATTUS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; FIBER OPTICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; RAT; SKIN; TAIL; TENDON;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; RATS; SKIN; TAIL; TENDONS;

EID: 70349251420     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3153842     Document Type: Article

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