Simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing for axial scanning

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12243-12254

  Durst, Michael E ^a   Zhu, Guanghao ^a   Xu, Chris ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

AXIAL SCANNING; SPATIAL FOCUSING; TEMPORAL FOCUSING;

SCANNING;

EID: 33845405631     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012243     Document Type: Article

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