Femtosecond two-photon-excited fluorescence of melanin

Klaus Teuchner; Susanne Mueller; Wolfgang Freyer; Dieter Leupold; Peter Altmeyer; Markus Stuecker; Klaus Hoffmann

doi:10.1117/12.453312

14 February 2003 Femtosecond two-photon-excited fluorescence of melanin

Klaus Teuchner, Susanne Mueller, Wolfgang Freyer, Dieter Leupold, Peter Altmeyer, Markus Stuecker, Klaus Hoffmann

Proceedings Volume 4797, Multiphoton Absorption and Nonlinear Transmission Processes: Materials, Theory, and Applications; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453312
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2002, Seattle, WA, United States

Abstract

Spectral and time-resolved fluorescence studies of different eumelanins (natural, synthetic, enzymatic) in solution have been carried out by two-photon excitation at 800 nm, using 80 fs pulses with photon flux densities ≤ 10²⁷ cm^-2.s^-1. Whereas all samples show monotonously decreasing absorption between near UV and near IR, their fluorescence behavior indicates strong heterogeneity. With respect to the also measured one-photon excited fluorescence (OPF) of melanin at 400 nm, the overall spectral shape of the two-photon excited fluorescence (TPF) is red-shifted. Both OPF and TPF exhibit three-exponential decay with a shortest component £ 200 ps. As is also shown, the fluorescence properties of melanin are dependent on the micro-environment. This allows the hypothesis, that the process of malignant transformation in skin tissue could be reflected in the fluorescence, provided the melanin in skin is selectively excited. The latter is realized by the described stepwise absorption of two 800 nm photons. In this way, indeed characteristic differences between the TPF spectra of healthy tissue, nevus cell nevi and malignant melanoma have been found.

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Klaus Teuchner, Susanne Mueller, Wolfgang Freyer, Dieter Leupold, Peter Altmeyer, Markus Stuecker, and Klaus Hoffmann "Femtosecond two-photon-excited fluorescence of melanin", Proc. SPIE 4797, Multiphoton Absorption and Nonlinear Transmission Processes: Materials, Theory, and Applications, (14 February 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453312

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