Nonlinear-microscopy optical-pulse sources based on mode-locked semiconductor lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 17752-17758

  Yokoyama, H ^a   Sato, A ^a   Guo, H C ^a   Sato, K ^a   Mure, M ^b   Tsubokawa, H ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO LTD   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASER PULSES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

HYBRID MODE-LOCKING; MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; MULTI-PHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PULSE SOURCES; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION; TWO PHOTON FLUORESCENCE; YB-DOPED FIBERS;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 55349135552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017752     Document Type: Article

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