Broadband nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy by shaping a coherent fiber supercontinuum

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 8269-8275

  Liu, Yuan ^a   King, Matthew D ^a   Tu, Haohua ^a   Zhao, Youbo ^a   Boppart, Stephen A ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COHERENT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY;

ALL NORMAL DISPERSIONS; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING; NON-LINEAR FIBER; NONLINEAR VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; SPONTANEOUS RAMAN; SPONTANEOUS RAMAN SCATTERING; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; VIBRATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; VIBRATION;

EID: 84875978163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.008269     Document Type: Article

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