High-spatial-resolution one-dimensional rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy imaging using

Christopher J Kliewer1

  • 1Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA. cjkliew@sandia.gov

Optics Letters
|August 3, 2012
PubMed

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