title: Fast STED microscopy with continuous wave fiber lasers.
abstract: We report on fast beam-scanning stimulated-emission-depletion (STED) microscopy in the visible range using for resolution enhancement compact, low cost and turn-key continuous wave (CW) fiber lasers emitting at 592 nm. Spatial resolutions of 35 to 65 nm in the focal plane are shown for various samples including fluorescent nanoparticles, immuno-stained cells with a non-exhaustive selection of 5 commonly used organic fluorescent markers, and living cells expressing the yellow fluorescent protein Citrine. The potential of the straightforward combination of CW-STED and fast beam scanning is illustrated in a movie of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of a living cell, composed of 100 frames (6 microm x 12 microm), each of them acquired in a time shorter than 0.2 s.
authors.affiliation: Department of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Gael
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Moneron
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Medda
authors.forename: Birka
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hein
authors.forename: Arnold
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giske
authors.forename: Volker
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Westphal
authors.forename: Stefan W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Hell
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007834:Lasers; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity