Highlights

7-01-2007, Yan Fu et al's demyelination work is reported by National Science Foundation:      http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109661

7-01-2007, Eunah Kang et al's paper, "Paclitaxel distribution in poly(ethylene glycol) / poly(lactide-co-glycolic acid) blends and its release visualized by coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy Journal of Controlled Release", is reported by www.spectroscopyNOW.com

6-25-2007, Ji-Xin Cheng, "Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy", focal point article, is accepted by Applied Spectroscopy.

5-11-2007, Yunzhou Shi received a Travel award from National Neurotrauma Society for her presentation in the 2007 National Neurotrauma Society meeting. Congratulations to Yunzhou! 

4-30-2007, Yan Fu, Haifeng Wang, Riyi Shi, Ji-Xin Cheng, "Noninvasive Molecular Imaging of Intact Myelin Sheath by Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy", is reported by American Laboratory and American Biotechnology Laboratory as a feature article.

3-30-2007, Thuc Le received an Ruth L. Kirschtein National Research Service Award from NIH. Congratulations to Thuc!

3-20-2007, Haifeng Wang, Yan Fu, Ji-Xin Cheng, "Experimental observation and theoretical analysis of Raman resonance-enhanced photodamage in coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy," published in Journal of the Optical Society of America B 24, 544 (2007), has been selected to Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science http://www.vjultrafast.org and Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research http://www.vjbio.org.

3-1-2007, Our multimodal NLO image of myelin sheath and asltrogilal processes was chosen as the cover of the May issue of Biophysical Journal. Congratulations to Yan and Haifeng. See picture here.

2-1-2007, Our in vivo CARS image is selected as the cover of the Feb issue of Journal of Microscopy. See picture here.

7-24-2006.
Our article, "Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering imaging with a laser source delivered by a photonic crystal fiber," published in Optics Letters 31, 1417 (2006), has been selected for the July 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.

10-21-05.
Our paper "in vitro and in vivo two-photon luminescence imaging of single gold nanorods" is published in PNAS online with a front-page news report. see http://www.pnas.org/misc/highlights.shtml