"High-contrast chemical imaging with gated heterodyne
coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy" M. Greve, B. Bodermann, H. R. Telle, P. Baum, and E. Riedle
Appl. Phys. B 81, 875 - 879 (2005)
Abstract: A novel method is presented which substantially improves the signal-tobackground
ratio for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy. It
exploits the fixed phase relation between pump, Stokes and CARS fields together with the
strong phase coherence in supercontinua generated by femtosecond lasers. Three phase
locked optical parametric amplifiers are used for the realisation of a heterodyne signal
detection. Proper pulse timing yields a gating mechanism which nearly completely
suppresses solvent background signals.
BMO authors (in alphabetic order): Peter Baum Eberhard Riedle
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