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Physical Review A

Fluorophore discrimination by tracing quantum interference in fluorescence microscopy

Arijit K. De, Debjit Roy, Debabrata Goswami

Published Jan 21, 2011• 8 citations
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Abstract

We show fluorescence-detected quantum interference in a microscope setup and demonstrate selective enhancement or suppression of fluorophores using femtosecond pulse-pair excitation with periodic modulation of the interpulse phase.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.83.015402

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