Dan Oron Hot Topics presentation: Patterned Multiphoton Photoactivation in Scattering Tissue by Temporal Focusing
Presented at SPIE Photonics West 2013
Temporal focusing uses multiple pulses and changes the duration of the individual pulses so that their overlap at a specific location is limited in time. This combination of spatial and temporal focusing provides improved sensitivity which facilitates much longer depths of penetration in tissue. This technique was used to photoactively stimulate a single neuron through 200 microns of nerve tissue.
Dan Oron is Principle Investigator of the Nanophotonics Group at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel). His research interests include nonlinear optics, semiconductor quantum dots, localized surface plasmons, sub-diffraction limited, imaging, multiphoton microscopy, hydrodynamic instability.