Broadband sum-frequency generation as an efficient two-photon detector for optical tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 8760-8769

  Pe'er, Avi ^a   Bromberg, Yaron ^a   Dayan, Barak ^a   Silberberg, Yaron ^a   Friesem, Asher A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHASE MATCHING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

INTERFERENCE FRINGES; NONLINEAR MIXING; OPTICAL POWER; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34547214316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008760     Document Type: Article

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