Investigation of second- and third-harmonic generation in few-layer gallium selenide by multiphoton microscopy

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Karvonen, Lasse ^a   Säynätjoki, Antti ^a   Mehravar, Soroush ^b   Rodriguez, Raul D ^c   Hartmann, Susanne ^c   Zahn, Dietrich R T ^c   Honkanen, Seppo ^d   Norwood, Robert A ^b   Peyghambarian, N ^a,b,d   Kieu, Khanh ^b   Lipsanen, Harri ^a   Riikonen, Juha ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

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EID: 84930226409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10334     Document Type: Article

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