Title :
Photonic crystal fiber based two-photon-fluorescence microscopy systems at 0.8μm and 1.3μm wavelength regimes
Author :
Chan, Ming-Che ; Tai, Shih-Peng ; Liu, Tzu-Ming ; Sun, Chi-Kuang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
Abstract :
We demonstrate hollow-core and large-core photonic-crystal-fiber-based two-photon fluorescence microscopes at 0.8μm and 1.3μm. The two-photon excitation efficiencies and image performances are comparable to or better than those acquired by the conventional fiber-free system.
Keywords :
fluorescence; optical fibres; optical images; optical materials; optical microscopy; photonic crystals; two-photon processes; 0.8 micron; 1.3 micron; hollow-core photonic crystal fiber; large-core photonic-crystal-fiber; two-photon excitation; two-photon-fluorescence microscopy; Fiber lasers; Fluorescence; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical microscopy; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Photonic crystal fibers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202129
