All-fiber multimodal CARS microscopy of live cells

Using an all-fiber laser system consisting of a femtosecond Er/Yb fiber oscillator as the pump and an ultra-highly nonlinear fiber for Stokes generation, we demonstrate multimodal (TPF+SHG+CARS) non-linear optical microscopy of both tissue samples and live cells. Multimodal imaging was successfully performed with pixel dwell times as short as 4 \ub5s at low laser powers (< 40 mW total).Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye