Femtosecond fiber lasers based on dissipative processes for nonlinear microscopy

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1412-1421

  Wise, Frank W ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; fiber lasers; microscopy; optical pulses

Indexed keywords

BIO-IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; DISSIPATIVE PROCESS; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; FIBER MEDIUM; HIGH PULSE ENERGY; NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY; PULSE EVOLUTION; PULSE-SHAPING; RECENT PROGRESS; SELF-SIMILAR; SHORT PULSE DURATION;

HIGH ENERGY LASERS; LASER PULSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; SOLITONS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84863923929     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2179919     Document Type: Article

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