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Coherent anti-Stokes Raman microspectroscopy using spectral focusing with glass dispersion

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3028346· OSTI ID:21175756
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  1. School of Biosciences and School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3US (United Kingdom)

We demonstrate experimentally that coherent anti-Stokes Raman microspectroscopy with high spectral resolution is achieved using femtosecond laser pulses chirped up to a few picoseconds by glass elements of known group-velocity dispersion without significant intensity losses. By simply choosing the length of the glass, the chirp of Stokes and pump pulses is tailored to obtain a spectral resolution given by the Fourier limit of the chirped pulse duration. We show that for chirped pulse durations shorter than or comparable to the Raman coherence time, maximum signal occurs for a pump arriving after the Stokes pulse, a time-ordering effect confirmed by numerical simulations.

OSTI ID:
21175756
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 20 Vol. 93; ISSN APPLAB; ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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