title: High-spectral-resolution coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering with interferometrically detected broadband chirped pulses.
abstract: To achieve high-spectral-resolution multiplex coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS), one typically uses a narrowband pump pulse and a broadband Stokes pulse. This is to ensure a correspondence between anti-Stokes and vibrational frequencies. We obtain high-resolution CARS spectra of isopropanol, using a broadband chirped pump pulse and a broadband Stokes pulse, by detecting the anti-Stokes pulse with spectral interferometry. With the temporally resolved anti-Stokes signal, we can remove the chirp of the anti-Stokes pulse and restore high spectral resolution while also rejecting nonresonant scattering.
authors.affiliation: Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign, 61801, USA.
authors.forename: Gareth W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Daniel L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Marks
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vinegoni
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Boppart
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D007368:Interferometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods