Extermann Jerome, Bonacina Luigi, Cuña Enrique, Kasparian Christelle, Mugnier Yannick, Feurer Thomas, Wolf Jean-Pierre
Université de Genève, GAP-Biophotonics, 20 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
Opt Express. 2009 Aug 17;17(17):15342-9. doi: 10.1364/oe.17.015342.
We demonstrate the possibility to excite second-harmonic (SH) active Fe(IO(3))(3) nanocrystals with two distinct laser sources at 800 and 1550 nm, and we show, by a complementary experimental and numerical study, how the wavelength flexibility inherent to non-phase-matched SH nanoparticles can be efficiently exploited to increase imaging penetration depth of markers embedded in biological samples.