title: All-fiber CARS microscopy of live cells.
abstract: Using an all-fiber laser system consisting of a femtosecond Er/Yb fiber oscillator as the pump and an ultra-highly nonlinear fiber for Stokes generation, we demonstrate multimodal (TPF+SHG+CARS) non-linear optical microscopy of both tissue samples and live cells. Multimodal imaging was successfully performed with pixel dwell times as short as 4 micros at low laser powers (< 40 mW total).
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada.
authors.forename: Adrian F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Pegoraro
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ridsdale
authors.forename: Douglas J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Moffatt
authors.forename: John Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Pezacki
authors.forename: Brian K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Libin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Martin E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Fermann
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stolow
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D004867:Equipment Design; D004871:Erbium / Q000737:chemistry; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D006801:Humans; D007834:Lasers; D008853:Microscopy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000379:methods; D011817:Rabbits; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000379:methods*; D015018:Ytterbium / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D004871:Erbium; D015018:Ytterbium