Intracavity Second Harmonic Generation of Rapid and Random Wavelength Tuned Picosecond Pulsed Laser and its Biological Applications

Author

Maeda, Yasuhiro ; Yumoto, Masaki ; Yamashita, Masafumi ; Saito, Norihito ; Ogawa, Takayo ; Wada, Satoshi

Author_Institution

Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Chiba

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this work presents a picosecond pulsed Ti:sapphire laser pumped with a frequency-doubled LD-pumped cw Nd:YVO₄ laser and intracavity second harmonic generation (SHG) of picosecond pulsed rapid and random wavelength tuned Tksapphire laser. The laser allows the tuning range from UV to blue with picosecond duration. Moreover, the paper demonstrated a pumping of fluorescent proteins (FPs) using the barm labeled cyan fluorescent protein (CFP) as a sample for the floresence microscope.

Keywords

biological techniques; fluorescence; high-speed optical techniques; laser beam applications; laser tuning; molecular biophysics; optical harmonic generation; proteins; semiconductor lasers; Al₂O₃:Ti; YVO₄:Nd; barm labeled cyan fluorescent protein; biological applications; floresence michroscope; frequency-doubled LD-pumped cw laser; intracavity second harmonic generation; pulsed rapid tuned laser; random wavelength tuned picosecond pulsed laser; Fluorescence; Frequency conversion; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Power generation; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385832

Filename

4385832