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High-Flux Biphoton Source for Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence

Andreas Jechow, Henning Kurzke, Axel Heuer, Ralf Menzel

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

A signal enhancement of an order of magnitude was observed at low light levels using biphotons for sum-frequency generation compared to coherent light. We will discuss issues of applying biphotons to two-photon excited fluorescence.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2014.qw5a.3

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