Ultrafast pump-probe microscopy with high temporal dynamic range

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 10330-10338

  Domke, Matthias ^a   Rapp, Stephan ^a   Schmidt, Michael ^b   Huber, Heinz P ^a  

^a MUNICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL PUMPING; PROBES; PUMPS;

ABLATION PROCESS; DELAY TIME; FEMTOSECONDS; FS LASER; LASER LIFT-OFF; MECHANICAL FILMS; MOLYBDENUM FILMS; OPTICAL DELAY; PROBE PULSE; PROBE SOURCE; PUMP PULSE; PUMP-PROBE; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRA-SHORT PULSE LASER; ZERO POINT;

ABLATION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROSCOPY; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84861133871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010330     Document Type: Article

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