From Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2018
We review the development of molecular, exogenic probes for the application of nonlinear optical imaging. The emphasis necessarily is on requirements for second-harmonic imaging, because of the more stringent noncentrosymmetry requirements imposed at both the molecular and the structural level. We focus on the application in cellular imaging, where the challenge is the specificity. Because of the serendipitous use of charges on the probes for the optimization of both the amphiphilic and the optical properties, we recall how hyper-Rayleigh scattering has been instrumental in this development. This also holds true for the fluorescent proteins and examples of fluorescent and chromoproteins for nonlinear imaging will be presented.
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K. Clays, "Development of molecular probes for cellular imaging combining second harmonic generation and two-photon fluorescence," Proc. SPIE 10738, Organic and Hybrid Sensors and Bioelectronics XI, 107381D (Presented at SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics: August 22, 2018; Published: 14 September 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2323412.