Ultrafast Biophotonics

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction and Overview

   • P. Vasa, D. Mathur

   Pages 1-7

3. Ultrashort Pulses and Nonlinear Optics: Nuts and Bolts

   • P. Vasa, D. Mathur

   Pages 9-39

4. Nonlinear Microscopy

   • P. Vasa, D. Mathur

   Pages 41-60

5. Ultrafast Single-Molecule Spectroscopy

   • P. Vasa, D. Mathur

   Pages 61-76

6. Ultrafast Lasers in Surgery and Cell Manipulation

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   Pages 77-93

7. Biophotonics in Ultrashort, Intense Optical Fields

   • P. Vasa, D. Mathur

   Pages 95-122

8. Ultrafast Quantum Mechanical Processes in Plants

   • P. Vasa, D. Mathur

   Pages 123-144

9. Ultrafast Quantum Mechanical Processes in Animals

   • P. Vasa, D. Mathur

   Pages 145-157

10. Energy Landscapes, Tunneling, and Non-adiabatic Effects

    • P. Vasa, D. Mathur

    Pages 159-177

11. Mimicking Ultrafast Biological Systems

    • P. Vasa, D. Mathur

    Pages 179-197

12. Future Opportunities

    • P. Vasa, D. Mathur

    Pages 199-222

13. Back Matter

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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. 

• Biological imaging and microscopy
• Dynamics of biological systems
• Frequency combs
• Light harvesting without chlorophyll
• Mimicking biological systems
• Multiphoton microscopy and imaging techniques
• THz imaging
• Ultrafast laser science in biology

“The authors have provided a fairly comprehensive ‘snapshot summary’ of the current field, providing interested readers with sufficient information to identify problems of interest. This book could be most useful for a researcher interested in expanding their work into the rapidly developing field of ultra-fast optical biophotonics.” (Andrew Resnick, Contemporary Physics, Vol. 58 (3), June, 2017)

“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 manyoptics techniques that are covered in the book, and their applications in biophotonics.” (Christoph Lienau, Current Science, Vol. 112 (5), March, 2017)

• Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

  P. Vasa

• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , Mumbai, India

  D. Mathur

Deepak Mathur is Distinguished Professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
Mumbai. His research interests encompass ultrafast, high-intensity laser science, and diverse topics in the atomic, molecular and optical sciences, and in biological physics. Amongst his recognitions are the Fellowship of TWAS (the World Academy of Science), the Indian National Science Academy, and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded the Government of India’s S. S. Bhatnagar Prize, the J. C. Bose National Fellowship, the European Union’s Erasmus-Mundus Scholarship in Optical Science and Technology, the Royal
Society’s Guest Research Fellowship, the Association of Commonwealth Universities’ Fulton Fellowship, and various named Lectureships. He has been co-Editor of EPL (Europhysics Letters) and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Physics B and Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry.  

Parinda Vasa is currently an Associate Professor in the Physics Department of the
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. Her research interests include experimen-
tal studies of ultrafast phenomena, nano-optics and plasmonics. Amongst her awards and
recognitions include membership of the Indian National Young Academy of Science, the
Humboldt Fellowship, the Schlumberger Foundation’s “Faculty for the future” award, the
European Union’s Heritage Fellowship, the Government of India’s SERB Women Excellence
Award and Indian National Science Academy Medal for Young Scientist.

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