Two-photon lensless endoscope

Opt Express. 2013 Sep 9;21(18):20713-21. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.020713.

Abstract

We report a first demonstration of two-photon endoscopic imaging with a lensless endoscope. The endoscope probe is a double-clad bundle of single-mode fibers; point excitation and scanning is achieved by coherent combining of femtosecond light pulses propagating in the single-mode fibers; and back-scattered two-photon signal is collected through the multi-mode inner cladding. We demonstrate the two-photon endoscope on a test sample of rhodamine 6G crystals.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Crystallization
  • Endoscopes*
  • Humans
  • Lenses*
  • Photons*
  • Rhodamines / chemistry*

Substances

  • Rhodamines
  • rhodamine 6G