• DocumentCode
    2877986
  • Title

    Achiral and chiral sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy of collagen fibrils

  • Author

    Rocha-Mendoza, I. ; Yankelevich, D.R. ; Wang, M. ; Bratton, C. ; Reiser, K.M. ; Frank, C.W. ; Knoesen, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, CA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The noncentrosymmetric molecular structures responsible for the second order nonlinear effects of collagen fibrils are identified by sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy. CH2 and C=O functional groups dominate the achiral and chiral spectra, respectively.
  • Keywords
    bio-optics; biological techniques; molecular biophysics; optical harmonic generation; proteins; achiral spectra; chiral spectra; collagen fibrils; noncentrosymmetric molecular structures; second harmonic generation; second order nonlinear effects; sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy; Amino acids; Biomedical optical imaging; Frequency; Laser beams; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Polarization; Proteins; Spectroscopy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628644
  • Filename
    4628644