Three-color femtosecond source for simultaneous excitation of three fluorescent proteins in two-photon fluorescence microscopy

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1972-1977

  Wang, Ke ^a   Liu, Tzu Ming ^b,c   Wu, Juwell ^b   Horton, Nicholas G ^a   Lin, Charles P ^b   Xu, Chris ^a  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PROTEINS; PUMPING (LASER); SOLITONS;

ENERGETIC PULSE; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; FEMTOSECONDS; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LARGE MODE AREA FIBER; MELANOMA CELLS; PUMP LASER; SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING; SOLITON SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS; TWO-PHOTON FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEINS;

LASER EXCITATION;

EID: 84866950009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.001972     Document Type: Article

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