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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Photonics. 2014 Jan 19;8(2):153–159. doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.360

Figure 3. Autobalanced detection.

Figure 3

a, Principle of balanced detection. b Noise suppression of the home-built auto-balanced detector optimized for 10MHz signal. c Noise spectrum of the fibre laser with (red) and without (blue) autobalanced detection. The theoretical shot-noise is indicated in grey. d,e, SRS images of 1.1 polystyrene beads with (d) and without (e) auto-balanced detection. Scale bars, 5.