Wavefront-division lateral shearing autocorrelator for ultrafast laser microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 4303-4312

  Quercioli, Franco ^a   Tiribilli, Bruno ^a   Vassalli, Massimo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETERS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SHEARING;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; SCANNING MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST MEASUREMENTS;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 6344229878     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004303     Document Type: Article

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