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
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...
Three-photon neuronal imaging in deep mouse brain
Tianyu Wang and Chris Xu...
Deep three-photon imaging of the brain in intact adult zebrafish
Dawnis M. Chow, David Sinefeld,...
Microscopic sensors using optical wireless integrated circuits
Alejandro J. Cortese, Conrad L....
Latest Patents
Optical Time-Division-Multiplex System
Denk, W., G. Lenz, J. Shmulovich,...
Multiphoton Laser Microscopy
Xu, C., and W.W. Webb....