Improving the signal-to-noise ratio of femtosecond luminescence upconversion by multichannel detection

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1410-1417

  Haacke, S ^a   Taylor, R A ^b   Bar Joseph, I ^c   Brasil, M J S P ^d   Hartig, M ^a   Deveaud, B ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

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EID: 0032389083     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.001410     Document Type: Article

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