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Two-photon Fiber STED Microscope Using Polarization Maintaining Fiber
We demonstrate a two photon (2P) fiber STED microscope in which the excitation and STED light are delivered to the sample in polarization maintaining (PM) fiber.
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- PAR ID:
- 10295312
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- Journal Name:
- Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- SW2D.2
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2021.SW2D.2
