Tailoring the soliton output of a photonic crystal fiber for enhanced two-photon excited luminescence response from fluorescent protein biomarkers and neuron activity reporters

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3373-3375

  Doronina, Lyubov V ^a   Fedotov, Il'ya V ^a   Voronin, Aleksandr A ^a   Ivashkina, Olga I ^b   Zots, Marina A ^b   Anokhin, Konstantin V ^b   Rostova, Ekaterina ^a   Fedotov, Andrei B ^a   Zheltikov, Aleksei M ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b P K ANOKHIN INSTITUTE OF NORMAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOMARKERS; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FLUORESCENCE; LASER DAMAGE; LUMINESCENCE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; PROTEINS; SOLITONS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FIELD INTENSITY; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SOLITON SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT; SOLITON TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENIC MICE; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION SPECTRUM; TWO-PHOTON EXCITED LUMINESCENCES; ZERO DISPERSION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; LASER; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; PHOTON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; LASERS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEURONS; PHOTONS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 70350648352     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.003373     Document Type: Article

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