Multiplex coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy by use of a nearly degenerate broadband optical parametric oscillator

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 27, 1999, Pages 5894-5898

  Chen, Peter C ^a   Joyner, Candace C ^a   Burns Kaurin, Michael ^a  

^a SPELMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

BROADBAND OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS (BOPO); COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY (CARS);

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032613463     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005894     Document Type: Article

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