Four-wave mixing microscopy of nanostructures

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-52

  Wang, Yong ^a   Lin, Chia Yu ^a   Nikolaenko, Alexei ^a   Raghunathan, Varun ^a   Potma, Eric O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 79851481387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19438206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AOP.3.000001     Document Type: Article

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