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Structured illumination can reject out-of-focus signal from a sample, enabling high-speed and high-contrast imaging over large areas with widefield detection optics. Currently, this optical-sectioning technique is limited by image…
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Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) has played an increasingly pivotal role in chemistry and photonics. Recently, understanding of light-molecule interaction during SRS was brought to a new quantitative level through the introduction of…
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A coherent microwave radiation, concomitant with experiments of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in weakly compressed hydrogen, had been observed; qualitative and quantitative results had been obtained, and are given in this article. .An…
Tissue surface shape and reflectance spectra provide rich intra-operative information useful in surgical guidance. We propose a hybrid system which displays an endoscopic image with a fast joint inspection of tissue surface shape using…
The range of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) frequencies covers a domain which at the low end abuts half the laser frequency, omega_0 / 2, according to the simplest SRS theories, corresponding to scatter from electron densities near 1/4…