“…Many different laser types have been employed to directly pump monomol and dimol O 2 bands: Nd:YAG and Nd-based [29] , [30] , [122] , [123] , [124] , [125] , [126] , [127] , [128] , [135] , [136] , [137] , [138] , [139] , [140] , [141] , [142] , [143] , [144] , Yb-based [31] , He-Ne [29] , [99] , [108] , [123] , [141] , [143] , [144] , [177] , [178] , [179] , [180] , [181] , semiconductor (diode) [27] , [108] , [109] , [114] , [119] , [120] , [137] , [146] , [148] , [149] , [150] , [151] , [152] , [153] , [154] , [168] , Raman-shifted [23] , [24] , [25] , [26] , [28] , [115] , dye-based [174] , [185] , alexandrite (Cr:BeAl 2 O 4 ) [108] , and forsterite (Cr:Mg 2 SiO 4 ) [109] to name the most common ones (more examples can be found in each wavelength subsection above). Visible excitation of O 2 has the drawback of overlapping with endogenous cellular chromophores, like c...…”