TY - GEN
T1 - Suppression of white light generation (supercontinuum) in biological media
T2 - Optics in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
AU - Santhosh, C.
AU - Dharmadhikari, A. K.
AU - Alti, K.
AU - Dharmadhikari, J. A.
AU - Mathur, D.
PY - 2007/8/31
Y1 - 2007/8/31
N2 - Propagation of ultrashort pulses of intense, infrared light through transparent medium gives rise to a visually spectacular phenomenon known as supercontinuum (white light) generation wherein the spectrum of transmitted light is very considerably broader than that of the incident light. We have studied the propagation of ultrafast (<45 fs) pulses of intense infrared light through biological media (water, and water doped with salivary proteins) which reveal that white light generation is severely suppressed in the presence of a major salivary protein, α-amylase.
AB - Propagation of ultrashort pulses of intense, infrared light through transparent medium gives rise to a visually spectacular phenomenon known as supercontinuum (white light) generation wherein the spectrum of transmitted light is very considerably broader than that of the incident light. We have studied the propagation of ultrafast (<45 fs) pulses of intense infrared light through biological media (water, and water doped with salivary proteins) which reveal that white light generation is severely suppressed in the presence of a major salivary protein, α-amylase.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.729518
DO - 10.1117/12.729518
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34548206677
SN - 0819465526
SN - 9780819465528
VL - 6439
T3 - Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
BT - Optics in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Y2 - 21 January 2007 through 23 January 2007
ER -