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
New BRAIN initiative grant from NIH to develop better imaging tools (09/30/2014)
BRAIN initiative grant See NIH...
Watch Chris’s talk at CLEO2014 on lasers for deep tissue imaging (09/04/2014)
lasers for deep tissue imaging...
Feature story in BioOptics World on our endoscopy research (09/25/2013)
News article in BioOptics World...
Dual modality, zoom endomicroscope is published (8/1/2013)
Our work on dual modality...
Three-photon fluorescence endoscopy of unstained tissue is published (04/01/2013)
Our work on three-photon...
Multi-color femtosecond source won the best poster award at Photonics West (02/04/2013)
Our work on multi-color...
Deep tissue, three-photon microscopy is published in Nature Photonics (01/20/2013)
Our work on in vivo three-photon...
Fast, 3D lifetime imaging is published in Nature Photonics (12/16/2012)
Our work on frequency multiplexed...
Latest Publications
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,...
Short-Wave Infrared Confocal Fluorescence Imaging of Deep Mouse Brain with a Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector
Fei Xia, Monique Gevers, Andreas...
Closed-loop wavefront sensing and correction in the mouse brain with computed optical coherence microscopy
Siyang Liu, Fei Xia, Xusan Yang,...
Multicolor three-photon fluorescence imaging with single-wavelength excitation deep in mouse brain
Yusaku Hontani, Fei Xia, and...
Latest Patents
Method and Apparatus for Imaging Semiconductor Devices
Denk, W., and C. Xu....
Optical Time-Division-Multiplex System
Denk, W., G. Lenz, J. Shmulovich,...
Multiphoton Laser Microscopy
Xu, C., and W.W. Webb....