Fiber-based source for multiplex-CARS microscopy based on degenerate four-wave mixing

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 12004-12013

  Gottschall, Thomas ^a   Baumgartl, Martin ^a,b   Sagnier, Aude ^a   Rothhardt, Jan ^a,b   Jauregui, Cesar ^a   Limpert, Jens ^a,b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TEXTILE FIBERS; YTTERBIUM;

ALL FIBER; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING; FIBER-BASED SOURCES; LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT; LASER SOURCES; MAINTENANCE FREE; NARROW BANDS; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; STOKES PULSE; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; VIBRATIONAL RESONANCE; YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MICROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASERS; MICROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84861498611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.012004     Document Type: Article

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