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
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...
Neurotech symposium on the brain spotlights new discoveries
The Inaugural Cornell Neurotech...
Latest Publications
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...
Deep-tissue Three-photon Fluorescence Microscopy in Intact Mouse and Zebrafish Brain
Hontani, Y., Akbari, N., Kolkman,...
Imaging deeper than the transport mean free path with multiphoton microscopy
Najva Akbari, Mihailo R Rebec,...
Spatially resolved measurements of ballistic and total transmission in microscale tissue samples from 450 nm to 1624 nm
Aaron T. Mok, Jamien Shea,...
Shot noise limits on binary detection in multiphoton imaging
Aaron K. LaViolette and Chris Xu,...
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....