Coherent nonlinear optical imaging: Beyond fluorescence microscopy

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 62, Issue , 2011, Pages 507-530

  Min, Wei ^a,c   Freudiger, Christian W ^a,b   Lu, Sijia ^a   Xie, X Sunney ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

abel free imaging; coherent Raman spectroscopy; pump probe microscopy; stimulated emission microscopy; stimulated Raman scattering microscopy

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; EXCITED STATES; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GROUND STATE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PROBES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; STIMULATED EMISSION; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

ABEL-FREE IMAGING; COHERENT RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; EMISSION MICROSCOPY; NONLINEAR DISSIPATION; NONLINEAR OPTICAL IMAGING; PUMP-PROBE MICROSCOPIES; RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY; STIMULATED EMISSION MICROSCOPY; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; PHOTON; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIBRATION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING PROBE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VIBRATION;

EID: 79953761251     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physchem.012809.103512     Document Type: Article

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