One-laser interferometric broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3631-3640

  Kee, Tak W ^a,b   Zhao, Hongxia ^a   Cicerone, Marcus T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIPIDS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS;

BENZONITRILE; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING (CARS); INCOHERENT NOISE SOURCES;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 33645834783     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.003631     Document Type: Article

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