Polarization-resolved second harmonic generation microscopy with a four-channel Stokes-polarimeter

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 14090-14099

  Mazumder, Nirmal ^a   Qiu, Jianjun ^a   Foreman, Matthew R ^b   Romero, Carlos Macías ^b   Hu, Chih Wei ^a   Tsai, Han Ruei ^a   Török, Peter ^b   Kao, Fu Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; POLARIMETERS; POTASSIUM;

CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST MECHANISM; DEGREE OF CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; DEGREE OF LINEAR POLARIZATION; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; FOUR-CHANNEL; PHOTON COUNTING; POLARIZATION EFFECT; POLARIZATION PARAMETERS; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; POTASSIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION MICROSCOPIES (SHG); SPATIAL CHARACTERIZATION; STOKES PARAMETERS;

POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863746852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014090     Document Type: Article

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