Durr, N.J., C. T. Weisspfennig, B. A. Holfeld, A. Ben-Yakar, "Maximum imaging depth of two-photon autofluorescence microscopy in epithelial tissues," Journal of Biomedical Optics, 16(2), 026008  (2011). 

• This article was selected for the March 2011 issue of the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, which highlights selected published articles from a wide range of journals to focus on cutting-edge research.
• This article has been elected as one of the top 10 most cited papers published in the Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) in 2011. The paper was mentioned by the Editor-in-Chief, Lihong Wang, in his annual review of JBO: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.18.2.020101.

Hoy, C.L., "Development of femtosecond laser endoscopic microsurgery," Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin (2011).

Ben-Yakar, A., D. Eversole, and S. X. Guo, "Plasmonic laser nanoablation", US Patent 7834331, issued on 11/16/2010.

• This patent covers the nanoscale ablation of materials and tissue using plasmonically-enhanced ultrafast laser pulses in the near-field of nanoparticles. The patent is based on the work done in the Ben-Yakar Group for the application of this technique to nanofabrication and targeted cellular manipulation. 

See related papers:

PLN of silicon with gold nanoparticles: Eversole et al. and Harrison et al.

PLN of glass using carbon nanotubes: Guo et al.

Review of PLN for biomedical applications: Ben-Yakar et al.

Durr, N.J., "Nonlinear imaging with endogenous fluorescent contrast and plasmonic contrast agents," Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin (2010).

Harrison, R.K. and Ben-Yakar, A.,“Role of near-field enhancement in plasmonic laser nanoablation using gold nanorods on a silicon substrate,” Optics Express 18, 22556-22571 (2010). 

• A comment regarding this article and our reply have been published in Optics Express. Link

Guo, S.X., "Femtosecond laser nanoaxotomy lab-on-a-chip for in vivo nerve regeneration studies," Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin (2010).

Haering, S.W., "Nanoparticle mediated photodisruption," Master's Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin (2010).

Ghorashian, N., "Parallelized Microfluidic Devices for High-Throughput Nerve Regeneration Studies in Caenorhabditis elegans," Master's Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin (2010).

Hoy, C.L., W. N. Everett, J. Kobler, and A. Ben-Yakar, "Towards endoscopic ultrafast laser microsurgery of vocal folds", Proc. SPIE 7548, 754831(2010).

Ben-Yakar, A., Chronis, N., and Hang Lu, "Microfluidic tools for the analysis of behavior and neural cell physiology in worms," Invited Review for Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 19, 561-567 (2009).