Second harmonic microscopy of axonemes.

We performed Second Harmonic Microscopy of axonemes obtained from sea urchin sperm. Using polarization analysis and a trade-off between signal and photodamage, we were able to determine, for the first time to our knowledge, the nonlinear susceptibility chizxx/chixzx = 1.1+/-0.2 and chizzz/chixzx = 4+/-0.5 of axonemes.

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