Pulsed interleaved excitation fluorescence spectroscopy with a supercontinuum source

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3370-3378

  Olofsson, Linnea ^a,b,c   Margeat, Emmanuel ^a,b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE DE BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

DETECTED PHOTONS; EXCITATION SOURCES; FLUORESCENCE CROSS-CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL CONFIGURATIONS; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PICOSECOND LASER; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; SUPERCONTINUUM LASER; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; ILLUMINATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHTING;

EID: 84874090470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.003370     Document Type: Article

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