Potma Labs Publications

Peer reviewed journal publications

Hyunmin Kim, Dave K. Taggart, Chengxiang Xiang, Reginald M. Penner and Eric O. Potma, "Spatial control of coherent anti-Stokes emission with height-modulated gold zig-zag nanowires", Nano Lett., in press (2008).

Vishnu Vardhan Krishnamachari and Eric O. Potma,"Multidimensional differential imaging with focus-engineered CARS microscopy", Vib. Spectrosc., accepted (2008).

Hyunmin Kim, Chengxiang Xiang, Aleix G. Guell, Reginald M. Penner and Eric O, Potma,"Tunable two photon-excited luminescence in single gold nanowires fabricated by lithographically patterned nanowire electrodeposition", J. Phys. Chem. C, in press (2008).

Vishnu Vardhan Krishnamachari and Eric O. Potma,"Detecting lateral interfaces with focus-engineered coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy ", J. Raman Spectrosc. 39, 593-598 (2008). [pdf]

Vishnu Vardhan Krishnamachari and Eric O. Potma,"Imaging chemical interfaces perpendicular to the optical axis with phase-shaped coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy ", Chem. Phys. 341, 81-88 (2007). [pdf]

Vishnu Vardhan Krishnamachari and Eric O. Potma,"Focus-engineered coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering: A numerical investigation", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 24, 1138-1147 (2007). [pdf]]

Esben Ravn Andresen, Soren Rud Keiding and Eric O. Potma, "Picosecond anti-Stokes generation in a photonic crystal fiber for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering interferometry", Opt. Express 14, 7246-7251 (2006). [pdf]

Vishnu Vardhan Krishnamachari, Esben Ravn Andresen, Soren Rud Keiding and Eric O. Potma, "An active interferometer-stabilization scheme with linear phase control", Opt. Express 14, 5210-5215 (2006). [pdf]

Published Conference Proceedings

Max Zimmerley, Hyunmin Kim, Desiré Whitmore, Vishnu Vardhan Krishnamachari, Carole Hayakawa, Bernard Choi, Vasan Venugopalan and Eric O. Potma, "Making CARS better", Proc. SPIE 6853, 68530S1-S8 (2008) [pdf]

Previous Publications

Peer reviewed journal publications

Xiaolin Nan, Eric O. Potma and X. Sunney Xie, "Nonperturbative chemical imaging of organelle transport in living cells with coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy", Biophys. J. 91(2), 728-735 (2006). [pdf]

Eric O. Potma, Conor L. Evans and X. Sunney Xie, "Heterodyne coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) imaging", Opt. Lett. 31, 241-243 (2006). [pdf]

Conor L. Evans, Eric O. Potma, Mehron Puoris'haag, Daniel Cote, Charles Lin and X. Sunney Xie, "Chemical imaging of tissue in vivo with video-rate coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy", Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. USA 102, 16807-16812 (2005). [pdf]

Eric O. Potma and X. Sunney Xie, "Direct visualization of lipid phase segregation in single lipid bilayers with coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy", ChemPhysChem 6 , 77-79 (2005). [pdf]

Conor Evans, Eric O. Potma and X. Sunney Xie, "Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectral interferometry: Determination of the real and imaginary components of the nonlinear susceptibility for vibrational microscopy", Opt. Lett. 29 , 2923 (2004). [pdf]

Eric O. Potma , X. Sunney Xie, Ligia Muntean, Jan Preusser, David Jones, Jun Ye, Stephen R. Leone; William D. Hinsberg and Wolfgang Schade, "Chemical imaging of photoresists with coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy", J. Phys. Chem. B 108 , 1296 (2004).

Eric O. Potma and X. Sunney Xie, "Detection of single lipid bilayers with coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy," J. Raman Spectrosc. 34 , 642 (2003).

Eric O. Potma , Conor Evans, X. Sunney Xie, R. Jason Jones and Jun Ye, "Picosecond-pulse amplification with an external passive optical cavity", Opt. Lett. 28 , 1835 (2003).

Jixin Cheng, Eric O. Potma and X. Sunney Xie, "Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering correlation spectroscopy: Probing dynamical processes with chemical selectivity", J. Phys. Chem. A 106 , 8561 (2002).

David J. Jones, Eric O. Potma , Jixin Cheng, Bernd Burfeindt, Yang Pang, Jun Ye and X. Sunney Xie , "Synchronization of two-passively mode-locked, ps lasers within 20 fs for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy", Rev. Sci. Inst . 73 , 2843-2848 (2002).

Eric O. Potma , David. J. Jones, Jixin Cheng, X. Sunney Xie and Jun Ye, "High sensitivity coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy with two tightly synchronized picosecond lasers", Opt. Lett . 27 , 1168-1170 (2002).

E. P. Reeves, H. Lu, H. L. Jacobs, C. G. M. Messina, S. Bolsover, G. Gabella, E. O. Potma , A, Warley, J. Roes and A. W. Segal, "Killing activity of neutrophils in mediated through activation of proteases by K + flux", Nature 416 , 291-297 (2002).

Eric O. Potma , Wim P. de Boeij, Leonard Bosgraaf, Jeroen Roelofs, Peter J. M. van Haastert and Douwe A. Wiersma, "Reduced protein diffusion rate by cytoskeleton in vegetative and polarized Dictyostelium cells", Biophys. J . 81 , 2010-2019 (2001).

Eric O. Potma , Wim P. de Boeij and Douwe A. Wiersma, "Femtosecond dynamics of intracellular water probed with nonlinear optical Kerr effect microspectroscopy", Biophys. J . 80, 3019-3024 (2001).

Eric O. Potma , Wim P. de Boeij, Peter J. M. van Haastert and Douwe A. Wiersma, "Real-time visualization of intracellular hydrodynamics in single living cells", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 1577-1582 (2001).

Eric O. Potma , Wim P. de Boeij and Douwe A. Wiersma, "Nonlinear coherent four-wave mixing in optical microscopy", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 17, 1678-1684 (2000).

Eric O. Potma , Wim P. de Boeij, Maxim S. Pshenichnikov and Douwe A. Wiersma, "A 30-fs, cavity-dumped optical parametric oscillator", Opt. Lett . 23, 1763-1765 (1998).

Eric O. Potma and Douwe A. Wiersma, "Exciton superradiance in aggregates: The effect of disorder, higher order exciton-phonon coupling and dimensionality", J. Chem. Phys . 108, 4894-4903 (1998).

Published Conference Proceedings

David J. Jones, Eric O. Potma, Ji-Xin Cheng, Jun Ye and X. Sunney Xie, “Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy with near-infrared ps pulses synchronized within 20 fs”, in Ultrafast Phenomena XIII, R.D. Miller, M.M. Murnane, N.F. Scherer and A.M. Weiner (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 184-186 (2002).

Eric O. Potma, Wim P. De Boeij and Douwe A. Wiersma, “Intracellular water diffusion probed by femtosecond nonlinear CARS microscopy”, in Ultrafast Phenomena XII, T. Elsaessar, S. Mukamel, M.M. Murnane and N.F. Scherer (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 251-255 (2000).

Book chapters

Eric O. Potma and X. Sunney Xie, “Theory of Spontaneous and Coherent Raman Scattering” and “Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy: Instrumentation and Applications” in Handbook of Biological Nonlinear Optical Microscopy, Peter So and Barry R. Masters (Eds.), Oxford University Press, pp. 164-185 (2008).

Eric O. Potma and X. Sunney Xie, “Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy: Instrumentation and Applications” in Handbook of Biological Nonlinear Optical Microscopy, Peter So and Barry R. Masters (Eds.), Oxford University Press, pp. 412-434 (2008).

X. Sunney Xie, JiXin Cheng and Eric O. Potma, “Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy” in Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, 2nd edition, James Pawley (Ed.), Springer Science, New York (2006)

Feature Articles

K. Ross, "Following Cellular Traffick with CARS", Analytical Chemistry 78, 6701 (2006). [pdf]

K. Robinson, "CARS Microscope Designed for Video-rate Chemical Imaging", Biophotonics International 13, 32-34 (2006). [pdf]

C. M. Henry. "Imaging Lipids", Chemical & Engineering News 83, 36-37 (2005). [pdf]

Eric O. Potma and X. Sunney Xie, "CARS for Biology and Medicine", Optics and Photonics News 15, 40-45 (2004). [pdf]

Eric O. Potma, Wim P. de Boeij en Douwe A. Wiersma, ”Ultrafast water motions in cells probed with a femtosecond optical microscope”, Optics & Photonics News 12, p16 (2001)