Optimally chirped multimodal CARS microscopy based on a single Ti:sapphire oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2984-2996

  Pegoraro, Adrian F ^a,b   Ridsdale, Andrew ^b   Moffatt, Douglas J ^b   Jia, Yiwei ^c   Pezacki, John Paul ^b   Stolow, Albert ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c Olympus America Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; HISTOLOGY; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SAPPHIRE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE;

CARS MICROSCOPIES; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY; FS LASER PULSE; HIGH CONTRAST; MULTI-MODAL IMAGING; TI:SAPPHIRE OSCILLATORS; TUNABILITIES; VARIABLE PARAMETERS;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 60549097914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002984     Document Type: Article

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