Pulse shaping for mode-selective ultrafast coherent Raman spectroscopy of highly scattering solids

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 768-772

  Pestov, Dmitry ^a,b   Wang, Xi ^a   Murawski, Robert K ^a,c   Ariunbold, Gombojav O ^a   Sautenkov, Vladimir A ^a,d   Sokolov, Alexei V ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ARRIVAL TIME; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; DECAY DYNAMICS; EXCITATION BANDS; SCATTERING MEDIUM; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; STOKES PULSE; TIME-RESOLVED CARS;

PULSE SHAPING;

EID: 62249099249     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.000768     Document Type: Article

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