Ultrafast, cross-correlated harmonic imaging through scattering media

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-51

  Kuditcher, Amos ^a,b   Hoover, Brian G ^a   Hehlen, Markus P ^a,c   Leith, Emmett N ^a   Rand, Stephen C ^a   Shih, Marian P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Celeste Optics Incorporated   (United States)

^c Gemfire Corporation   (United States)

^d SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL FILTERS;

HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0038781226     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000045     Document Type: Article

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