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Two-photon microscopy enhanced by anti-bunching

Ashok Muthukrishnan

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

Anti-bunching in two-photon correlations from a doubly driven Raman source is shown to have spatial periodicity comparable to optical two-slit interference. This can be applied to enhance microscopic resolution.
DOI
10.1364/icqi.2007.jwc60

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