Highly sensitive setup for tunable wavelength hyper-Rayleigh scattering with parallel detection and calibration data for various solvents

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4587-4604

  Campo, Jochen ^a   Desmet, Filip ^a   Wenseleers, Wim ^a   Goovaerts, Etienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CHROMOPHORES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SOLVENTS;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; FIRST HYPERPOLARIZABILITIES; FUNDAMENTAL WAVELENGTH; HYPER RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; INTENSIFIED CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL CHROMOPHORE; PARALLEL DETECTION; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 62749115240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004587     Document Type: Article

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