Optical contrasts in microscopy are sensitive to light polarization, whose interaction with
molecular dipoles provides an important lever for probing molecular orientation. Polarization …

The combination of nonlinear optics and nanotechnology is an extremely rich scientific
domain yet widely unexplored. We present here a review of recent optical investigations on …

In this tutorial I analyze the polarization-dependent properties of different optical contrasts
widely used today in imaging, applied to biology and biomedical diagnostics. I derive the …

We elucidate the crystalline nature and the three-dimensional orientation of isolated organic
nanocrystals embedded in a sol-gel matrix, using a polarized nonlinear microscopy …

Nonlinear second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy has become a commonly used
technique for investigating interfacial phenomena [1, 2] and imaging biological samples.[3] …

Microscopic techniques based on nonlinear optical processes provide alternative ways to
visualize natural and artificial nanoscopic systems with minimum disturbance. In such …

Nanoparticles emitting two‐photon luminescence are broadly used as photostable emitters
for nonlinear microscopy. Second‐harmonic generation (SHG) as another two‐photon …

Fluorescent imaging of single helicene molecules is applied to study the optical activity of
chiral fluorophores. In contrast to the previous report by Hassey et al.(Science 2006, 314 …

Two-photon light-sheet microscopy (2P-SPIM) provides a unique combination of advantages
for fast and deep fluorescence imaging in live tissues. Detecting coherent signals such as …

The polarization dependence of second harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy is used to
uncover structural information in different muscle cells in a living Caenorhabditis elegans (C …