Title :
Gated heterodyne coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering with phase-locked tunable femtosecond pulses
Author :
Greve, M. ; Bodermann, B. ; Telle, H.R. ; Baum, P. ; Riedle, E.
Author_Institution :
Phys. Tech. Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
Abstract :
We propose and demonstrate heterodyne CARS chemical imaging as a novel application of phase-coherent femtosecond supercontinua. With proper timing of three phase-locked pulses this technique achieves efficient background suppression.
Keywords :
coherent antiStokes Raman scattering; high-speed optical techniques; spectrochemical analysis; background suppression; chemical imaging; coherent antiStokes Raman scattering; femtosecond supercontinua; gated CARS; heterodyne CARS; phase-coherent supercontinua; phase-locked pulses; tunable femtosecond pulses; Biomedical optical imaging; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Raman scattering; Spectroscopy; Stimulated emission; Timing; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202268
