Second-harmonic generation in lithium niobate nanowires for local fluorescence excitation

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 19012-19021

  Sergeyev, Anton ^a   Geiss, Reinhard ^a   Solntsev, Alexander S ^b   Steinbrück, Andrea ^a   Schrempel, Frank ^a   Kley, Ernst Bernhard ^a   Pertsch, Thomas ^a   Grange, Rachel ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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NANOWIRES;

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION; FUNDAMENTAL HARMONIC; NANOWIRES (NWS); NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; SECOND-HARMONIC; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84881488181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.019012     Document Type: Article

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