Picosecond anti-Stokes generation in a photonic-crystal fiber for interferometric CARS microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 7246-7251

  Andresen, Esben Ravn ^a   Keiding, Søren Rud ^a   Potma, Eric Olaf ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; CRYSTALS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

ANTI-STOKES BEAMS; ANTI-STOKES PULSES; ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING; PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 33746864856     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007246     Document Type: Article

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