• DocumentCode
    3068179
  • Title

    Dependence of the photobleaching of fluorescent proteins on the repetition rate of femtosecond light pulses

  • Author

    Toda, Keisuke ; Takahashi, Hiroki ; Suda, Akira

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Noda, Japan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    June 30 2013-July 4 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We investigate the photobleaching of fluorescent proteins as functions of pulse interval, chirp, and pulse energy of femtosecond excitation lights and find out that the photobleaching occurs via one-photon excited-state absorption of the triplet state.
  • Keywords
    fluorescence; high-speed optical techniques; molecular biophysics; optical saturable absorption; proteins; femtosecond excitation light; femtosecond light pulse; fluorescent proteins; one-photon excited-state absorption; photobleaching; pulse chirp; pulse energy; pulse interval; repetition rate; triplet state; Absorption; Chirp; Delays; Fluorescence; Microscopy; Photobleaching; Proteins;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kyoto
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600622
  • Filename
    6600622