Two-photon fluorescence excitation spectroscopy by pulse shaping ultrabroad-bandwidth femtosecond laser pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 6348-6353

  Xu, Bingwei ^a   Coello, Yves ^a   Lozovoy, Vadim V ^a   Dantus, Marcos ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FLUORESCENCE; LASER EXCITATION; LASER PULSES; PHOTONS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

AUTOMATED APPROACH; EXCITATION PULSE; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; PH SENSITIVE; PULSE SHAPER; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; TWO PHOTON FLUORESCENCE;

OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING;

EID: 78149449514     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.006348     Document Type: Article

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