https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2004204
Picosecond fluorescence lifetime imaging by parametric image amplification
Institut FEMTO-ST, Département d'Optique P.M. Duffieux, Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6174, Université de
Franche-Comté, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
Corresponding author: fdevaux@univ-fcomte.fr
Received:
8
March
2004
Revised:
3
August
2004
Accepted:
27
August
2004
Published online:
23
November
2004
We report a new method of fluorescence lifetime imaging that uses the ultra-fast optical temporal gating properties of parametric image amplification. Images with different lifetimes in the picosecond range are resolved with reliable and reproducible results.
PACS: 42.65.Yj – Optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers / 78.47.+p – Time-resolved optical spectroscopies and other ultrafast optical measurements in condensed matter / 42.62.Eh – Metrological applications; optical frequency synthesizers for precision spectroscopy
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