Seeing a single molecule vibrate through time-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 650-656

  Yampolsky, Steven ^a   Fishman, Dmitry A ^a   Dey, Shirshendu ^a   Hulkko, Eero ^a,b   Banik, Mayukh ^a   Potma, Eric O ^a   Apkarian, Vartkess A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; WAVE PACKETS;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING; INFORMATION CONTENTS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; PHASE FLUCTUATION; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR; VIBRATIONAL COHERENCES; VIBRATIONAL WAVE PACKETS;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84905241023     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.143     Document Type: Article

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