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
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...
Live-cell imaging: Deeper, faster, wider (03/30/2018)
TECHNOLOGY FEATURE / Science...
Top neuroscientists to speak at Cornell Neurotech symposium (09/22/2017)
The second annual Cornell...
$9M NSF grant will create neurotech research hub at Cornell (08/01/2017)
Engineers and biologists will...
3-photon imaging of mouse brain activity is published in Nature Methods (2/20/2017)
In vivo three-photon imaging of...
Tianyu Wang won the JenLab Young Investigator Award at Photonics West 2017 (01/30/2017).
Tianyu Wang won the JenLab Young...
Most Cited Paper in JOSA B
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The real-time technicolour living brain
Neurobiologists are coming up...
Latest Publications
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,...
Multiphoton imaging of neural structure and activity in Drosophila through the intact cuticle
Max Jameson Aragon, Aaron T Mok,...
Intravital imaging the subventricular zone with three photon microscopy
Bin Sun, Mengran Wang, Anna...
Latest Patents
Multi-wavelength pulse generator using time-lens compression
US 7,483,635 Multi-wavelength...
Performance monitoring in an optical communication system
US 7,460,785 Performance...
Modulation phase shift to compensate for optical passband shift
US 7,403,718 Modulation phase...
Dynamic measurement of and compensation for impairments to optical data communication pulses
US7,206,522 Dynamic measurement...
Nonlinear phase-shift compensation method and apparatus
US7,062,176 Nonlinear phase-shift...
Dynamic Measurement of and Compensation for Impairments to Optical Data Communication Pulses Using Photon-Counting Silicon Avalanche Photodiode
Knox, W. H., J. M. Roth, and C....