Probing microscopic chemical environments with high-intensity chirped pulses

Optics Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 244-246

  Buist, Arjan H ^a   Müller, Michiel ^a   Ghauharali, Rick I ^a   Brakenhoff, G J ^a   Squier, Jeff A ^b   Bardeen, Chris J ^c   Yakovlev, Vladislav V ^c   Wilson, Kent R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000263249     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.24.000244     Document Type: Article

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