Raman microscopy based on doubly-resonant four-wave mixing (DR-FWM)

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 17044-17051

  Weeks, Tyler ^a   Wachsmann Hogiu, Sebastian ^a,b   Huser, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE;

CHEMICAL SPECIFICITY; COHERENT ADDITION; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; NON-DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING; RAMAN MICROSCOPY; RAMAN RESONANCES; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERINGS (SRS);

STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

OLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

MICROSCOPY; OLEIC ACID; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 70349227270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017044     Document Type: Article

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