Programmable lasers: Design and applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7580, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Burgoyne, B ^a   Villeneuve, Alain ^a  

^a Genia Photonics Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

CARS; Fluorescence lifetime; Mode locked laser; Multi photon spectroscopy; Nonlinear optics; Nonlinear spectroscopy; Optical coherence tomography; Picosecond laser; Programmable laser; Pump probe; SRS; Sweep source; Synchronized lasers; Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; LASER PUMP-PROBE; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MULTI-PHOTON SPECTROSCOPY; MULTIPHOTONS; NONLINEAR SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PICOSECOND LASER; SYNCHRONIZED LASER;

COHERENT LIGHT; COHERENT SCATTERING; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; FLUORESCENCE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LASER TUNING; LASERS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PROBES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; SCANNING; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; TOMOGRAPHY;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77951846563     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.841277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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