Title :
Design and Application of Shaper-Assisted Collinear (SAC-) SPIDER for Pulse Compression in High-contrast Multiphoton Microscopy
Author :
von Vacano, B. ; Buckup, T. ; Motzkus, M.
Author_Institution :
Philipps-Univ. Marburg, Marburg
Abstract :
The paper presents the details of the design as well as the application of SAC-SPIDER to nonlinear microscopy, where imaging contrast can be dramatically improved within seconds. Furthermore, the reliability of the technique is demonstrated by comparison with independent crossfrequency resolved optical gating (XFROG) measurements. Its simplicity and versatility make SAC-SPIDER a very useful tool for advanced nonlinear microscopy with broadband femtosecond laser pulses.
Keywords :
laser reliability; multiphoton processes; optical pulse compression; optical pulse shaping; broadband femtosecond laser pulses; high contrast multiphoton microscopy; imaging contrast; independent crossfrequency resolved optical gating measurements; nonlinear microscopy; pulse compression; reliability; shaper assisted collinear SPIDER; Fluorescence; Image coding; Image reconstruction; Nonlinear optics; Optical microscopy; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse shaping; Pulse compression methods; Pulse shaping methods; Ultrafast optics;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386653
