Picosecond fluorescence lifetime imaging by parametric image amplification

We report a new method of fluorescence lifetime imaging that uses the ultra-fast optical temporal gate properties of parametric image amplification. Images with different lifetimes in the picosecond range are resolved with reliable and reproducible results. All these results are in good agreement with the lifetimes measured with a streak camera.

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