Dispersion pre-compensation of 15 femtosecond optical pulses for high- numerical-aperture objectives

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-150

  Muller M ^a   Squier, J ^b   Wolleschensky, R ^c   Simon, U ^d   Brakenhoff, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Dispersion; Femtosecond pulses; Prechirping; Two photon absorption microscopy

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; MICROSCOPES; PARTICLE BEAMS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

AUTO CORRELATION; EXCITATION EFFICIENCY; FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL PULSE; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURE OBJECTIVE; MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE; PHOTON ABSORPTION MICROSCOPY; PRE-COMPENSATION; PRECHIRPING; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION MICROSCOPY;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031821097     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1998.00357.x     Document Type: Article

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