Femtosecond pump/supercontinuum-probe spectroscopy: Optimized setup and signal analysis for single-shot spectral referencing

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Dobryakov, A L ^a   Kovalenko, S A ^a   Weigel, A ^a   Prez Lustres J L ^a,c   Lange, J ^b   Muller A ^b   Ernsting, N P ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DINUCLEOTIDES; DNA BREATHING; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FEMTOSECONDS; HOECHST 33258; MINOR GROOVES; OPTICAL DENSITIES; PROBE LIGHT; PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTIVE OPTICS; RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTRA; SINGLE-SHOT; SPECTRAL OSCILLATIONS; SPOT SIZES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULATED RAMAN; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTRA; VIBRATIONAL STRUCTURES;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT; OPTIMIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

PROBES;

EID: 78650302748     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3492897     Document Type: Article

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