Numerical study of effects of light polarization, scatterer sizes and orientations on near-field coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2423-2434

  Lin, Jian ^a   Wang, Haifeng ^b   Zheng, Wei ^a   Lu, Fake ^a   Sheppard, Colin ^a   Huang, Zhiwei ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CELLULAR ORGANELLES; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN TECHNIQUE; NANOSCALE RESOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PERPENDICULAR POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 60549110510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002423     Document Type: Article

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