Vasa P., Mathur D. Ultrafast Biophotonics

Springer, 2016. — 232 p. — ISBN10: 3319396129This book presents emerging contemporary optical techniques of ultrafast science which have opened entirely new vistas for probing biological entities and processes. The spectrum reaches from time-resolved imaging and multiphoton microscopy to cancer therapy and studies of DNA damage. The book displays interdisciplinary research at the interface of physics and biology. Emerging topics on the horizon are also discussed, like the use of squeezed light, frequency combs and terahertz imaging as the possibility of mimicking biological systems. The book is written in a manner to make it readily accessible to researchers, postgraduate biologists, chemists, engineers, and physicists and students of optics, biomedical optics, photonics and biotechnology
Topics
Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices
Biophysics and Biological Physics
Physical Chemistry
Biomedical Engineering
BiochemistryIntroduction and Overview
Ultrashort Pulses and Nonlinear Optics: Nuts and Bolts
Nonlinear Microscopy
Ultrafast Single-Molecule Spectroscopy
Ultrafast Lasers in Surgery and Cell Manipulation
Biophotonics in Ultrashort, Intense Optical Fields
Ultrafast Quantum Mechanical Processes in Plants
Ultrafast Quantum Mechanical Processes in Animals
Energy Landscapes, Tunneling, and Non-adiabatic Effects
Mimicking Ultrafast Biological Systems
Future Opportunities