Photostable second-harmonic generation from a single KTiOPO4 nanocrystal for nonlinear microscopy.

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Laboratoire de Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire ENS Cachan, UMR CNRS 8537 61 avenue du Président Wilson, 94235 Cachan Cedex, France.

Published: September 2008


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