Fiber laser-based light source for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microspectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4848-4856

  Andresen, Esben Ravn ^a   Nielsen, Carsten Krogh ^a   Thøgersen, Jan ^a   Keiding, Søren Rud ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

CARS MICROSPECTROSCOPY; FEMTOSECOND STOKES PULSE; RAMAN-ACTIVE VIBRATIONS; SPECTRAL WIDTH;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 34247242744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004848     Document Type: Article

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