Physics Department

The University of Texas at Arlington

 

COLLOQUIUM

Candidate for Assistant Professor of Physics

in Nano-Bio Physics

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The Power of Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering: from Tracing the Ultrafast Dynamics of Elementary Excitations in Condensed Matter to Imaging of Living Cells and Tissue with Subwavelength Resolution

 

Dr. Feruz Ganikhanov

 

Harvard University

 

 

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

4:00 p.m.

Room 121 SH

 

Abstract

 

Resonant vibrational spectroscopy and imaging with Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering technique will be discussed in the light of its bio-physics and bio-medical applications. Different experimental realizations of CARS microscopy for label-free, high-speed imaging have been applied, for example, to demonstrate organelle trafficking in living cells and nonlinear optical tissue imaging. Future research directions in laser based nonlinear optical imaging techniques and its applications in biophysics and bioengineering will be outlined as well.

 

 

Refreshments will be served in the Physics Library at 3:30pm, Room 108 Science Hall.