All-fiber CARS microscopy of live cells

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 20700-20706

  Pegoraro, Adrian F ^a,b   Ridsdale, Andrew ^b   Moffatt, Douglas J ^b   Pezacki, John Paul ^b   Thomas, Brian K ^c   Fu, Libin ^c   Dong, Liang ^c   Fermann, Martin E ^c   Stolow, Albert ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c IMRA AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; HARMONIC GENERATION; PUMPING (LASER);

ALL-FIBER LASERS; CARS MICROSCOPIES; FEMTOSECONDS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS; MULTI-MODAL IMAGING; NONLINEAR OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; STOKES GENERATIONS; TISSUE SAMPLES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ERBIUM; YTTERBIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; RABBIT; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERBIUM; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; LASERS; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; RABBITS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 70749120911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020700     Document Type: Article

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