Noise autocorrelation spectroscopy with coherent Raman scattering

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-129

  Xu, Xiaoji G ^a   Konorov, Stanislav O ^a   Hepburn, John W ^a   Milner, Valery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PULSE SHAPING; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

COHERENT ANTI STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING; COHERENT RAMAN SCATTERING; NOISE AUTOCORRELATION; NONLINEAR OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRAL PULSE SHAPING; SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD; TEMPORAL AND SPECTRAL RESOLUTIONS; THIRD ORDER NONLINEAR PROCESS;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

EID: 38849164250     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys809     Document Type: Article

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