Ultrafast Biophotonics [Hardcover]

This book presents emerging contemporary optical techniques of ultrafast science which have opened entirely new vistas for probing biological entities and processes. The spectrum reaches from time-resolved imaging and multiphoton microscopy to cancer therapy and studies of DNA damage. The book displays interdisciplinary research at the interface of physics and biology. Emerging topics on the horizon are also discussed, like the use of squeezed light, frequency combs and terahertz imaging as the possibility of mimicking biological systems. The book is written in a manner to make it readily accessible to researchers, postgraduate biologists, chemists, engineers, and physicists and students of optics, biomedical optics, photonics and biotechnology. Introduction and overview.- Introduction to ultrafast and intense Fields.- Multiphoton microscopy and imaging techniques, including THz imaging.- Intense fields I.- Intense fields II.- Dynamical studies.- Mimicking biological systems: light harvesting without chlorophyll.- Biological interactions and energy landscapes: theoretical frameworks.- Outlook.The authors look at the emerging field of ultrafast biophotonics from a fresh physical perspective and explain many of the underlying physical concepts in clear and pictorial terms. & aims at young graduate students and researchers in ultrafast optics and biophotonics who need a timely and sufficiently broad overview of the field. & those with a more biology-oriented background will certainly benefit from being introduced to the manyls¾