Single-shot interferometric approach to background free broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 123-135

  Lee, Young Jong ^a   Cicerone, Marcus T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; COHERENT SCATTERING; INTERFEROMETRY; PULSE SHAPING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

CENTER FREQUENCY; COHERENT ANTI STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPIES; NARROWBAND PULSE; OPTIMIZATION CONDITIONS; PULSE COMPONENTS; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; COLOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COLOR; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERFEROMETRY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 58449087624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000123     Document Type: Article

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