Non-resonant background suppression by destructive interference in coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 25925-25934

  Konorov, Stanislav O ^a,b   Blades, Michael W ^b   Turner, Robin F B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE SHAPING; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BACKGROUND SUPPRESSION; COHERENT ANTI STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPIES; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; MEASURED SIGNALS; RESONANT CONTRIBUTION; SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84555197167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.025925     Document Type: Article

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