Editors' Picks Collection: Microscopy

To honor its 40th Anniversary, the editors of Optics Letters selected articles from a variety of topic areas that reflect the progression of each area over the journal's history. Below is a collection of articles in the area of Microscopy.

Note that this selection of articles is not meant to be exhaustive but authoritative, showing that significant contributions were made and continue to be made in this area.

  1. Scanning coherent anti-Stokes Raman microscope

    M. D. Duncan, J. Reintjes, and T. J. Manuccia

    Opt. Letters 7(8) 350-352 (1982)

  2. Method of obtaining optical sectioning by using structured light in a conventional microscope

    M. A. A. Neil, R. Juškaitis, and T. Wilson

    Opt. Letters 22(24) 1905-1907 (1997)

  3. Multiphoton endoscopy

    Juergen C. Jung and Mark J. Schnitzer

    Opt. Letters 28(11) 902-904 (2003)

  4. Digital holographic microscopy: a noninvasive contrast imaging technique allowing quantitative visualization of living cells with subwavelength axial accuracy

    Pierre Marquet, Benjamin Rappaz, Pierre J. Magistretti, Etienne Cuche, Yves Emery, Tristan Colomb, and Christian Depeursinge

    Opt. Letters 30(5) 468-470 (2005)

  5. In vivo brain imaging using a portable 3.9 gram two-photon fluorescence microendoscope

    Benjamin A. Flusberg, Juergen C. Jung, Eric D. Cocker, Erik P. Anderson, and Mark J. Schnitzer

    Opt. Letters 30(17) 2272-2274 (2005)

  6. Fiber-optic scanning two-photon fluorescence endoscope

    Mon Thiri Myaing, Daniel J. MacDonald, and Xingde Li

    Opt. Letters 31(8) 1076-1078 (2006)

  7. High-sensitivity vibrational imaging with frequency modulation coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (FM CARS) microscopy

    Feruz Ganikhanov, Conor L. Evans, Brian G. Saar, and X. Sunney Xie

    Opt. Letters 31(12) 1872-1874 (2006)

  8. Accelerating finite energy Airy beams

    Georgios A. Siviloglou and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

    Opt. Letters 32(8) 979-981 (2007)

  9. Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy for in vivo imaging of single capillaries

    Konstantin Maslov, Hao F. Zhang, Song Hu, and Lihong V. Wang

    Opt. Letters 33(9) 929-931 (2008)

  10. Subwavelength-resolution label-free photoacoustic microscopy of optical absorption in vivo

    Chi Zhang, Konstantin Maslov, and Lihong V. Wang

    Opt. Letters 35(19) 3195-3197 (2010)