Polarization shaping in the mid-IR and polarization-based balanced heterodyne detection with application to 2D IR spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 14526-14533

  Middleton, Chris T ^a   Strasfeld, David B ^a   Zanni, Martin T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODYNING; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

ACOUSTO OPTICAL MODULATORS; COHERENT CONTROL; FEED-BACK LOOP; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; ORTHOGONAL PULSE; RELATIVE PHASE; SIGNAL TO NOISE; WIRE GRID POLARIZERS;

HETERODYNE DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 69049101160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014526     Document Type: Article

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