Spectral phase optimization of femtosecond laser pulses for narrow-band, low-background nonlinear spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 10882-10887

  Lozovoy, Vadim V ^a   Shane, Janelle C ^a   Xu, Bingwei ^a   Dantus, Marcos ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR EXCITATION; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING SPECTRA;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 29244444481     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.010882     Document Type: Article

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