Two-Photon Excitation Study of Peridinin in Benzene and in the Peridinin Chlorophylla-Protein (PCP)

2002 ◽  
Vol 106 (36) ◽  
pp. 9418-9423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Zimmermann ◽  
Patricia A. Linden ◽  
Harsha M. Vaswani ◽  
Roger G. Hiller ◽  
Graham R. Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Two Photon ◽  
Photon Excitation ◽  
Two Photon Excitation

Two-photon excitation microscopy in cellular biophysics

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 62-63
Author(s):  
David W. Piston ◽  
Brian D. Bennett ◽  
Robert G. Summers
Keyword(s):  
Confocal Microscopy ◽  
Laser Beam ◽  
Duty Cycle ◽  
Excited Electronic State ◽  
Input Power ◽  
Two Photon ◽  
Simultaneous Absorption ◽  
Photon Excitation ◽  
Very High ◽  
Two Photon Excitation

Two-photon excitation microscopy (TPEM) provides attractive advantages over confocal microscopy for three-dimensionally resolved fluorescence imaging and photochemistry. Two-photon excitation arises from the simultaneous absorption of two photons in a single quantitized event whose probability is proportional to the square of the instantaneous intensity. For example, two red photons can cause the transition to an excited electronic state normally reached by absorption in the ultraviolet. In practice, two-photon excitation is made possible by the very high local instantaneous intensity provided by a combination of diffraction-limited focusing of a single laser beam in the microscope and the temporal concentration of 100 femtosecond pulses generated by a mode-locked laser. Resultant peak excitation intensities are 106 times greater than the CW intensities used in confocal microscopy, but the pulse duty cycle of 10-5 maintains the average input power on the order of 10 mW, only slightly greater than the power normally used in confocal microscopy.

Two-photon excitation fluorescence microscopy in living systems

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 154-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Piston
Keyword(s):  
Confocal Microscopy ◽  
Fluorescence Microscopy ◽  
Singlet State ◽  
Excited Electronic State ◽  
Input Power ◽  
Two Photon ◽  
Simultaneous Absorption ◽  
Photon Excitation ◽  
Very High ◽  
Two Photon Excitation

Two-photon excitation fluorescence microscopy provides attractive advantages over confocal microscopy for three-dimensionally resolved fluorescence imaging. Two-photon excitation arises from the simultaneous absorption of two photons in a single quantitized event whose probability is proportional to the square of the instantaneous intensity. For example, two red photons can cause the transition to an excited electronic state normally reached by absorption in the ultraviolet. In our fluorescence experiments, the final excited state is the same singlet state that is populated during a conventional fluorescence experiment. Thus, the fluorophore exhibits the same emission properties (e.g. wavelength shifts, environmental sensitivity) used in typical biological microscopy studies. In practice, two-photon excitation is made possible by the very high local instantaneous intensity provided by a combination of diffraction-limited focusing of a single laser beam in the microscope and the temporal concentration of 100 femtosecond pulses generated by a mode-locked laser. Resultant peak excitation intensities are 106 times greater than the CW intensities used in confocal microscopy, but the pulse duty cycle of 10−5 maintains the average input power on the order of 10 mW, only slightly greater than the power normally used in confocal microscopy.

Two‐photon excitation fluorescence microscopy using a semiconductor laser

Bioimaging ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pekka E Hänninen ◽  
Martin Schrader ◽  
Erkki Soini ◽  
Stefan W Hell
Keyword(s):  
Fluorescence Microscopy ◽  
Semiconductor Laser ◽  
Two Photon ◽  
Photon Excitation ◽  
Two Photon Excitation

Two-Photon Excitation Imaging of Glucose Metabolism in Living Tissue

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (S2) ◽  
pp. 305-306
Author(s):  
David W. Piston
Keyword(s):  
Confocal Microscopy ◽  
Collection Efficiency ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Spatial Filter ◽  
Input Power ◽  
Photon Absorption ◽  
Focal Volume ◽  
Two Photon ◽  
Photon Excitation ◽  
Two Photon Excitation

Two-photon excitation microscopy (TPEM) provides attractive advantages over confocal microscopy for three-dimensionally resolved fluorescence imaging and photochemistry. It provides three-dimensional resolution and eliminates background equivalent to an ideal confocal microscope without requiring a confocal spatial filter, whose absence enhances fluorescence collection efficiency. This results in inherent submicron optical sectioning by excitation alone. In practice, TPEM is made possible by the very high local instantaneous intensity provided by a combination of diffraction-limited focusing of a single laser beam in the microscope and the temporal concentration of 100 femtosecond pulses generated by a mode-locked laser. Resultant peak excitation intensities are 106 times greater than the CW intensities used in confocal microscopy, but the pulse duty cycle of 10−5 limits the average input power to less than 10 mW, only slightly greater than the power normally used in confocal microscopy. Because of the intensity-squared dependence of the two-photon absorption, the excitation is limited to the focal volume.

Stimulated emission effects in excitonic molecule luminescence of CuCl under resonant two-photon excitation

1977 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 845-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Ojima ◽  
Yasuo Oka ◽  
Takashi Kushida ◽  
Shigeo Shionoya
Keyword(s):  
Stimulated Emission ◽  
Two Photon ◽  
Photon Excitation ◽  
Two Photon Excitation

TWO PHOTON PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY OF ZnS USING XeCl LASER

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (24) ◽  
pp. 1265-1270 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. SINGH ◽  
D. S. AHLAWAT ◽  
ARUN GAUR
Keyword(s):  
Band Gap ◽  
Photon Energy ◽  
Xecl Laser ◽  
Two Photon ◽  
Comparison Of Results ◽  
Photon Excitation ◽  
Enhanced Mobility ◽  
Two Photon Excitation

Log Q versus log I ph characteristics and laser enhanced mobility in the case of ZnS have been studied using a XeCl laser. The comparison of results in this case with multiphoton photoconductivity of other materials indicates two photon excitation from a lower valance band, wherefrom one-photon excitation is forbidden but two-photon excitation is allowed. Since the band-gap of ZnS is smaller than the photon energy of the XeCl laser, the result seems to be interesting.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document