Cross-phase modulation spectral shifting: Nonlinear phase contrast in a pump-probe microscope

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 854-862

  Wilson, Jesse W ^a   Samineni, Prathyush ^a   Warren, Warren S ^a,b,c   Fischer, Martin C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIA; PARAFFINS; PHASE MODULATION; PROBES; PUMPS;

CROSS-PHASE MODULATIONS; NONLINEAR PHASE; PROBE PULSE; PUMP-PROBE; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; SPECTRAL SHIFT; SPECTRAL SHIFTING; TECHNIQUE MEASURES;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84863889943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.000854     Document Type: Article

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