Abstract
Two-photon excitation is shown to substantially enhance the locality of fiber-based optical interrogation of strongly scattering biotissues. In our experiments, a high-numerical-aperture, large-core-are fiber probe is used to deliver the 200-fs output of a 100-MHz mode-locked ytterbium fiber laser to samples of live mouse brain, induce two-photon fluorescence of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond markers in brain sample. Fiber probes with a high numerical aperture and a large core area are shown to enable locality enhancement in fiber-laser-fiber-probe two-photon brain excitation and interrogation without sacrificing the efficiency of fluorescence response collection.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 83702 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 104 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |