A 75 MHz light source for femtosecond stimulated raman microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 18612-18620

  Ploetz, E ^a   Marx, B ^a   Klein, T ^a   Huber, R ^a   Gilch, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT SOURCES; PROBES; PUMPING (LASER); RAMAN SCATTERING;

FEMTOSECOND-STIMULATED RAMAN; FOCAL VOLUME; LASER OUTPUT; NARROW PULSE; PUMP-AND-PROBE; REPETITION RATE; SIMULTANEOUS RECORDING; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 70350346267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018612     Document Type: Article

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