Sub-100-fs deep-red mode-locked fiber laser for multicolor two-photon microscopy

Jinhai Zou; Hongsen He; Luming Song; Lu Huang; Jingbin Lan; Lan Lan; Tingting Chen; Cihang Kong; Zhipei Sun; Zhengqian Luo

doi:10.1117/1.AP.7.4.046009

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 7, Issue 4, 046009(2025)

Sub-100-fs deep-red mode-locked fiber laser for multicolor two-photon microscopy

Jinhai Zou1...2,†, Hongsen He1, Luming Song1,3, Lu Huang1, Jingbin Lan1, Lan Lan1, Tingting Chen1, Cihang Kong4, Zhipei Sun5, and Zhengqian Luo13,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Xiamen University, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Fujian Key Laboratory of Ultrafast Laser Technology and Applications, Xiamen, China

²National University of Defense Technology, College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Changsha, China

³Shenzhen Research Institution of Xiamen University, Shenzhen, China

⁴Fudan University, Institute for Translational Brain Research, MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Shanghai, China

⁵Aalto University, Department of Micro- and Nanosciences, Espoo, Finland

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