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Sorry, I got into that message series a bit late and didn't see the earlier posts.  You are quite right that an AOD should be really quite effective in 2-photon.  I don't know of any current application but I agree that it looks really promising.  

                                                                      Guy

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> An AOD (as used in the old Noran systems) is highly chromatic and so cannot be used in fluorescence.  AOD based fluorescence systems (Lasertek, Noran) have used  the equivalent of slit, rather than spot, detection.  

This shouldn't make a difference when using non-descanned detection with a single excitation line (e.g. 2P excitation), or am I missing something obvious?

Cheers, Chris