Optimizing the fluorescent yield in two-photon laser scanning microscopy with dispersion compensation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13661-13672

  Field, Jeffrey J ^a   Carriles, Ramón ^a,e   Sheetz, Kraig E ^a,f   Chandler, Eric V ^a   Hoover, Erich E ^a   Tillo, Shane E ^b   Hughes, Thom E ^b   Sylvester, Anne W ^c   Kleinfeld, David ^d   Squier, Jeff A ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^f UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; FLUOROPHORES; LASER EXCITATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

A-TRANSFORM; CDSE QUANTUM DOTS; EMISSION RATES; LIVING TISSUES; NONLINEAR IMAGING; QUANTUM DOT; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; RHODAMINE B; TOTAL YIELD; TWO-PHOTON LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPIES;

QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; PHOTOPROTEIN; QUANTUM DOT; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RHODAMINE; RHODAMINE B; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BLEACHING; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PLANT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGY; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOBLEACHING; PLANTS; QUANTUM DOTS; RHODAMINES; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77953816806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013661     Document Type: Article

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