• DocumentCode
    2985258
  • 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
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    1766
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-795-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2005.202268
  • Filename
    1573334