Fiber-optic probes with improved excitation and collection efficiency for deep-UV Raman and resonance Raman spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 170-180

  Greek, L Shane ^a,b,c   Schulze, H Georg ^a,b,c   Blades, Michael W ^a,c   Haynes, Charles A ^a,b,c   Klein, Karl Friedrich ^c   Turner, Robin F B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE MITTELHESSEN   (Germany)

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EID: 0001588464     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000170     Document Type: Article

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