Research
"In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration".
Robert J. Shiller
Femtosecond laser - Multiphoton microscopy - brain research
It has been proved by the last three decades that the development of the femtosecond(fs) laser is the engine for the development of the multi-photon microscopy (MPM), and MPM greatly accelerates the brain research, as shown in the above figure. There are two opposite directions:
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We develop new fs lasers for multi-photon microscopy and apply them to brain research.
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Interesting questions on brain research motivate us to develop novel imaging methods, e.g., multi-photon microscopy, which sometimes requires specific laser specifications, such as center wavelength, pulse width and repetition rate.
Optical microscopy - Optical communication - Laser
Optical microscopy and optical communication are similar. Optical microscopy transports spatial information such as images, while optical communication transports temporal information such as binary codes. Thus, instead of creating "new ideas", we could simply
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create novel optical devices for optical communications from optical microscopy, such as create "time lens" from "space lens", and "temporal compression" from "spatial beam compression", which was used to develop new lasers;
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develop novel imaging methods for microscopy from optical communications, such as create "adaptive excitation source" from "optical transmitter".