Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-modal imaging system (2) for non-invasive examination of an examination object (10), comprising a multi-photon imaging system for providing high-resolution detailed images of the examination object (10), which imaging system comprises a radiation source (12), the latter generating an excitation beam (21) of near infrared femtosecond laser radiation for triggering secondary radiation emitted by the examination object (10), and a focusing optical unit (30), by means of which the radiation of the radiation source (12) is directable at a measurement position of the examination object (10), wherein the focusing optical unit (30) and a laser head (14) of the radiation source (12) are provided in a measuring head (4), which is pivotable, rotatable and flexibly positionable freely in space such that the examination of the examination object (10) is performable under any desired solid angle, and comprising at least one confocal detection device, which is at least partly integrated in t

Abstract: A nonlinear laser scanning microscope for flexible, noninvasive three-dimensional detection comprising a measuring head which is flexibly connected to at least one radiation source by transmission optics and can be freely positioned in space, at least one controllable tilt mirror is arranged for aligning the excitation beam in order to keep the excitation beam concentric to an aperture-limited optical element of the measuring head, a test beam which is coupled out of the excitation beam onto a spatially resolving photodetector for monitoring the center alignment of the test beam as a conjugate position to the target position of the excitation beam and directional stabilizing the excitation beam by a control unit of the tilt mirror depending on a determined deviation.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for high-resolution microscopic imaging in laser endoscopy based on laser-induced object reaction radiation and for performing microscopic cuts in biological tissue. In using multiphoton processes for endoscopic applications in biological materials with an accuracy of under one millimeter, radiation of a pulsed femtosecond laser is focused into an object by means of a transmission focusing optics unit comprising a transmission system and miniature focusing optics having a high numerical aperture greater than 0.55 to trigger a local object reaction radiation in the micrometer to nanometer range, and the distal end of the transmission focusing optics unit is moved in at least two dimensions for highly spatially resolved scanning of the object and for transmitting object reaction radiation which is scanned in a locally progressive manner to an image-generating system with a photon detector.

Abstract: A nonlinear laser scanning microscope for flexible, noninvasive three-dimensional detection comprising a measuring head which is flexibly connected to at least one radiation source by transmission optics and can be freely positioned in space, at least one controllable tilt mirror is arranged for aligning the excitation beam in order to keep the excitation beam concentric to an aperture-limited optical element of the measuring head, a test beam which is coupled out of the excitation beam onto a spatially resolving photodetector for monitoring the center alignment of the test beam as a conjugate position to the target position of the excitation beam and directional stabilizing the excitation beam by a control unit of the tilt mirror depending on a determined deviation.