New methods in femtosecond multiphoton microscopy

The field of multiphoton microscopy has undergone significant advances since its beginning just over a decade ago. One of these was the development of coherent multiphoton techniques, which typically image intrinsic properties of the sample, without resorting to staining or labeling. Here we describe some recent technological developments in the two leading coherent multiphoton techniques: third-harmonic generation and coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy. These techniques are applied for visualization of a variety of biological and other samples.

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