Multiphoton imaging with sub-30 fs Yb fiber laser

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8226, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Saytashev, Ilyas ^a   Nie, Bai ^a   Chong, Andy ^b   Liu, Hui ^b   Arkhipov, Sergey ^a   Wise, Frank W ^b   Dantus, Marcos ^a,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c Biophotonic Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

fiber laser; living tissue; Multiphoton microscopy; third harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; FS PULSE; LIVING TISSUES; MULTIPHOTON FLUORESCENCE; MULTIPHOTON IMAGING; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; SECOND AND THIRD HARMONICS; YB FIBER LASERS;

HARMONIC GENERATION; TISSUE; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84859593973     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.908851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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