Welcome to Chris Xu Group
Our research has two main thrusts: biomedical imaging and fiber optics. We are exploring new concept and techniques, including novel ultrafast lasers and fiber optics, adaptive optics, and computation/ML, for imaging deep and fast.
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Latest News
Large FOV 2- and 3-photon imaging is published in eLight (2024)
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Review on “Multiphoton fluorescence microscopy for in vivo imaging” published in Cell (2024)
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New K99/R00 grant awarded to postdoc Xi Chen. Congrats! (02/2023)
Xi Chen won an NIH Pathway to...
Intravital imaging of mouse lymph nodes, Nature Immunology (01/2022)
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Imaging Drosophila through the intact cuticle, eLife (01/2022)
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Intravital imaging the subventricular zone, Cerebral Cortex (01/2022).
Intravital imaging the...
Watch Chris’s 10-minute talk on in vivo three-photon imaging of mouse brain
Chris’s 10-minute talk on...
Interview with Chris Xu after his plenary talk at CLEO
Neural Imaging: Deeper, Faster,...
Latest Publications
Multi-megawatt pulses from 1030 to 1300 nm based on soliton self-frequency shifting in a nitrogen-filled fiber
Yishai Eisenberg, Wenchao Wang,...
Efficient, broadly tunable, hollow-fiber source of megawatt pulses for multiphoton microscopy
Yishai Eisenberg, Wenchao Wang,...
A large field-of-view, single-cell-resolution two- and three-photon microscope for deep and wide imaging
Aaron Mok, Tianyu Wang, Shitong...
Improving the scan throughput of polygon scanners
Eric Hebert and Chris Xu,...
Efficient temporal compression of 10-µJ pulses in periodic layered Kerr media
Wenchao Wang, Yishai Eisenberg,...
Multiphoton fluorescence microscopy for in vivo imaging
Chris Xu, Maiken Nedergaard,...
Latest Patents
Adaptive illumination apparatus, method, and applications
Chris Xu, Kriti Charan, Bo Li...
Dual Mode Microendoscope Apparatus, Method and Applications
Dimitre Ouzonouv, Watt W. Webb,...
Multi-focal optical component, optical system, and imaging method
US Patent 9,375,136 Multi-focal...
Optical mode conversion by nonlinear effects
US Patent 9,482,817 Optical mode...
Fiber designs for wavelength tunable ultra-short pulse lasers
US Patent 9,502,852 Fiber designs...
Laser based apparatus, methods and applications
US Patent 9,195,042 Laser based...