@article{9fcfb667b9284f2e8bcef14f1a318efc,
title = "Nonlinear optical microscopy and spectroscopy employing octave spanning pulses",
abstract = "This paper reviews and discusses the concept of nonlinear optical spectroscopy (NLOS) and microscopy employing ultra-broadband laser pulses. A spectral phase modulation technique of the ultra-broadband pulses, which allows the control of nonlinear optical processes, enables multimodal imaging in nonlinear optical microscopy. This technique uses the difference of the excitation spectra of molecules of interest. A spectroscopic technique combining NLOS with a Fourier-transform (FT) spectroscopy provides a broadband excitation spectrum with the bandwidth of the ultra-broadband pulse and a high spectral resolution in a single measurement. FT-NLOS can also be applied directly to multispectral microspectroscopy.",
keywords = "Microscopy, nonlinear optics, pulse shaping methods, spectroscopy",
author = "Keisuke Isobe and Akira Suda and Masahiro Tanaka and Hiroshi Hashimoto and Fumihiko Kannari and Hiroyuki Kawano and Hideaki Mizuno and Atsushi Miyawaki and Katsumi Midorikawa",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received July 30, 2009; revised October 21, 2009; accepted October 22, 2009; Date of publication April 5, 2010; date of current version August 6, 2010. This work was supported in part by the Special Postdoctoral Researchers Program of RIKEN and in part by the Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 18656023) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.",
year = "2010",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2037439",
language = "English",
volume = "16",
pages = "767--780",
journal = "IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics",
issn = "1077-260X",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "4",
}