Pulse optimization for Raman spectroscopy with cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7564-7571

  Konorov, S O ^a,b   Xu, X G ^a   Turner, R F B ^a,b   Blades, M W ^a   Hepburn, J W ^a   Milner, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE MEASUREMENT; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

FEMTOSECOND PULSE SHAPING; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LASER INDUCED VIBRATIONAL COHERENCE; PULSE OPTIMIZATION;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34250217096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007564     Document Type: Article

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