title: Suppression of ultrafast supercontinuum generation in a salivary protein.
abstract: The first studies of the propagation of ultrafast (<45 fs) pulses of intense infrared light through protein media reveal that supercontinuum (white light) generation is severely suppressed in the presence of the protein alpha-amylase, a potential stress marker in human saliva. The continuum suppression capacity is attributed to the electron scavenging property of the protein.
authors.affiliation: Manipal University, Centre for Laser Spectroscopy, Manipal Life Sciences Centre, Manipal 576 104, India.
authors.forename: Chidangil
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Santhosh
authors.forename: Aditya K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Dharmadhikari
authors.forename: Kamlesh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alti
authors.forename: Jayashree A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Dharmadhikari
authors.forename: Deepak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mathur
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012469:Salivary Glands / Q000378:metabolism*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared / Q000379:methods*; D000516:alpha-Amylases / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000516:alpha-Amylases