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Picosecond fluorescence lifetime imaging by parametric image amplification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2004

S. Brustlein
Affiliation:
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
F. Devaux*
Affiliation:
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
E. Lantz
Affiliation:
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
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Abstract

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.

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© EDP Sciences, 2005

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