Toda Keisuke, Isobe Keisuke, Namiki Kana, Kawano Hiroyuki, Miyawaki Atsushi, Midorikawa Katsumi
RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura, Saitama 338-8570, Japan.
Biomed Opt Express. 2017 May 1;8(6):2796-2806. doi: 10.1364/BOE.8.002796. eCollection 2017 Jun 1.
Temporal focusing (TF) microscopy is a wide-field two-photon excitation fluorescence (2PEF) microscopy technique, the optical sectioning capability of which is lower than that of point-scanning 2PEF microscopy. Here we demonstrate TF microscopy using three-photon excitation fluorescence (3PEF), which enhances the optical sectioning capability. As an excitation light source for the 3PEF, we developed an Yb-fiber chirped pulse amplifier, which produces 92-fs 9.0-μJ 1060-nm pulses at a repetition rate of 200 kHz. The optical sectioning capability was improved by a factor of 1.3 compared with that of 2PEF-TF microscopy. We also demonstrate dual-color imaging with both 2PEF and 3PEF.
时间聚焦(TF)显微镜是一种宽场双光子激发荧光(2PEF)显微镜技术,其光学切片能力低于点扫描2PEF显微镜。在此,我们展示了使用三光子激发荧光(3PEF)的TF显微镜,其增强了光学切片能力。作为3PEF的激发光源,我们开发了一种镱光纤啁啾脉冲放大器,它以200 kHz的重复频率产生92飞秒、9.0微焦、1060纳米的脉冲。与2PEF-TF显微镜相比,光学切片能力提高了1.3倍。我们还展示了2PEF和3PEF的双色成像。