title: Pulse shaping strategies for nonlinear interferometric vibrational imaging optimized for biomolecular imaging.
abstract: Nonlinear interferometric vibrational imaging (NIVI) measures the temporal cross-correlation of anti-Stokes radiation from coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) processes to achieve increased sensitivity, stray light rejection, and nonresonant background rejection. Because the intensity of CARS radiation is proportional to the square of the molecular density of a target resonance, it is critical to maximize the recoverable signal for a given illumination level. Especially if one desires to measure several resonances, there can be a sensitivity as well as a speed advantage to measuring them simultaneously rather than serially. We discuss the methods of sample excitation that NIVI allows and their potential sensitivity advantages, as well as present experimental results demonstrating Raman signal recovery using these pulse sequences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Il 61801, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Marks
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vinegoni
authors.forename: Jeremy S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Bredfeldt
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Boppart