Multimodal microscopy with sub-30 fs Yb fiber laser oscillator

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1750-1756

  Nie, Bai ^a   Saytashev, Ilyas ^a   Chong, Andy ^b   Liu, Hui ^b   Arkhipov, Sergey N ^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; YTTERBIUM;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; FS PULSE; MULTIMODAL MICROSCOPY; MULTIPHOTON FLUORESCENCE; NONLINEAR OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SECOND AND THIRD HARMONICS; THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION IMAGING; YB FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84863908236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.001750     Document Type: Article

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