Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy using photonic crystal fiber with two closely lying zero dispersion wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 14028-14037

  Murugkar, Sangeeta ^a   Brideau, Craig ^b   Ridsdale, Andrew ^b   Naji, Majid ^a   Stys, Peter K ^c   Anis, Hanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DISPERSIONS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

LYING ZERO DISPERSION WAVELENGTHS (ZDW); PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SUPERCONTINUUM (SC);

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 35349031218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014028     Document Type: Article

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