Optical harmonic generation from animal tissues by the use of picosecond and femtosecond laser pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 34, 1996, Pages 6810-6813

  Guo, Yici ^a   Ho, P P ^a   Tirksliunas, A ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Alfano, R R ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 6144258849     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.006810     Document Type: Article

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