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
SPIE Luminary: Chris Xu (02/05/2021)
With this series, SPIE celebrates...
Review paper on three-photon imaging is published in Optica (08/11/2020).
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Three new papers published. Two on multiphoton imaging depth limit and the third on measurements of optical transmission of various tissues (12/2021).
Multiphoton imaging depth limit:...
Chris Xu is the new holder of the IBM Professorship of Engineering, a prestigious endowed chair (07/01/2020).
Deep three-photon imaging of the brain in intact adult zebrafish is published in Nature Methods (04/27/2020).
Dawnis M. Chow, David Sinefeld,...
Quantitative analysis of three-photon calcium imaging is published in eLife (01/30/2020)
Tianyu Wang, Chunyan Wu, Dimitre...
New adaptive excitation source for multiphoton imaging is published in Nature Methods (12/02/2019)
An adaptive excitation source for...
Three-photon imaging of mouse brain structure and function through the intact skull is published in Nature Methods (09/10/2018)
Three-photon imaging of mouse...
Latest Publications
Measurement of three-photon excitation cross-sections of fluorescein from 1154 nm to 1500 nm
Aaron K. LaViolette, Dimitre G....
Whole-brain optical access in a small adult vertebrate with two- and three-photon microscopy
NajvaAkbari, Rose L.Tatarsky,...
Roadmap on Wavefront Shaping and deep imaging in complex media
“Roadmap on Wavefront...
Three-Photon Adaptive Optics for Mouse Brain Imaging
David Sinefeld, Fei Xia, Mengran...
Neurophotonic tools for microscopic measurements and manipulation: status report
Neurophotonic tools for...
Intravital three-photon microscopy allows visualization over the entire depth of mouse lymph nodes
Kibaek Choe, Yusaku Hontani,...
Latest Patents
Multi-path, multi-magnification, non-confocal fluorescence emission endoscopy apparatus and methods
US Patent 8,705,184 Multi-path,...
Producing Optical Pulses of a Desired Wavelength Using Cherenkov Radiation
US 8,556,824 Producing Optical...
Production of Optical Pulses at a Desired Wavelengt Using Soliton Self-Frequency Shift in Higher Order Mode Fiber
US 8,554,035 Production of...
Multi-path, multi-magnification, non-confocal fluorescence emission endoscopy apparatus and methods
US 8,553,337 Multi-path,...
Methods and systems for compensation of self-phase modulation in fiber-based amplification systems
US 8,102,594 Methods and systems...
All-optical, continuously tunable, pulse delay generator using wavelength conversion and dispersion
US 7,538,935 All-optical,...