We present a modular approach to photo-labile protecting groups based on photoinduced electron transfer, providing high sensitivity to two-photon excitation.
TMP-CyHQ-AMPA is a photoactivatable form of a glutamate receptor agonist that has high sensitivity to 2-photon excitation. It can be used to study glutamatergic transmission with exceptional spatial-temporal resolution in complex tissue preparations.
An all-fiber acousto-optic frequency shifter (AOFS) based on an acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) cascaded with a packaged tapered fiber (TF)-coupled microsphere was proposed and demonstrated in both theory and experiment. The configuration has the advantages of easy alignment, robustness, compact size, and low cost, which will improve its further application, such as in the optical heterodyne detection technique (OHDT).