Materials
| Name | Company | Catalog Number | Comments |
| Lenses | Thorlabs Inc. | Various | All lenses coated to have maximum transmission losses of 1% each |
| Tunable Ti:Sapph laser | Coherent Inc. | Chameleon | 30 nJ, 200 fs, 80 MHz |
| 40X oil immersion objective | Olympus Corporation | UApo/340 | NA = 1.35 |
| Inverted microscope | Olympus Corporation | IX-71 | Modified to remove all lenses in side port |
| Half wave plate | Thorlabs Inc. | AHWP05M-600 | |
| Glan-Thompson polarizer | Thorlabs Inc. | GTH10M | ∼10% transmission loss |
| Spectrometer | Princeton Instruments/Acton | SP2300i | |
| CCD | Princeton Instruments/Acton | Pixis 100B | |
| Mathmatical software | Mathworks | MATLAB | version 2008a |
| Faraday isolator | EOT | BB8-5I | |
| Piezo-electric mirror | Newport Corp. | AG-M100 | |
| BBO crystal | CASIX | custom | 1 mm thickness |
| Bandpass filter 1 | Andover | 008FC14 | 808 ± 0.4 nm |
| Dichroic mirror | Semrock | FF662-FDI01 | band edge at 662 nm |
| Long-pass filter | Semrock | BLP01-405R | band edge at 417 nm |
| Bandpass filter 2 | Semrock | FF02-447/60 | 417-447 nm |
| CS2 | Sigma-Aldrich | 335266 | 99% purity |
| Coumarin 30 | Sigma-Aldrich | 546127 | 99% purity |
| Immersion oil | Cargill Labs | 16242 | Type DF |
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