Abstract

We address the issues that were raised by Tycho and Jørgensen [Appl. Opt. 41, 4709 (2002)] concerning our strategy [Appl. Opt. 39, 5244 (2000)] for incorporating the wave properties of light in the description of a propagating focused excitation beam in a highly scattering medium. We explain that the strategy is consistent with the Huygens-Fresnel principle and does not violate the energy conservation principle.

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Comment on “Excitation with a focused, pulsed optical beam in scattering media: diffraction effects”

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Third-harmonic generation microscopy in highly scattering media: reply to comment

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Excitation with a focused, pulsed optical beam in scattering media: diffraction effects

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