Nonlinear coherent four-wave mixing in optical microscopy

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1678-1684

  Potma, Eric O ^a   De Boeij, Wim P ^a   Wiersma, Douwe A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; CONVOLUTION; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RAMAN SCATTERING; WAVE EQUATIONS;

NUMERICAL APERTURES (NA); POWER SERIES ANALYSIS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 0034365482     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.001678     Document Type: Article

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