Shot-noise limited detection sensitivity in multiplex CARS microscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5323, Issue , 2004, Pages 195-204

  Müller, Michiel ^a   Schins, Juleon M ^b   Wurpel, G W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coherent anti Stokes Raman scattering; Lipid mono and bilayers; Lipid phase behaviour; Microscopy; Non linear optics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LIPIDS; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MONOLAYERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COHERENT ANT-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING; LIPID PHASE BEHAVIOR; MOLARITY;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 5644233886     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.527924     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. G. J. Puppels, et al., "Studying single living cells and chromosomes by confocal Raman microspectroscopy," Nature 347, 301-303 (1990).
2. A. Zumbusch, et al., "Three dimensional vibrational imaging by coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering," Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4142-4145 (1999).
3. M. Müller, et al., "CARS microscopy with folded BoxCARS phasematching," J. Microsc. 197, 150-158 (2000).
4. A. Volkmer, et al., "Vibrational imaging with high sensitivity via epidetected coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy," Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 23901-1/4 (2001).
5. J. Cheng, et al., "Polarization coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy," Opt. Lett. 26, 1341-1343 (2001).
6. M. Müller, et al., "Imaging the thermodynamic state of lipid membranes with multiplex CARS microscopy," J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 3715-3723 (2002).
7. G. W. H. Wurpel, et al., "Chemical specificity in 3D imaging with multiplex CARS microscopy," Opt. Lett. 27, 1093-1095 (2002).
8. A. Volkmer, et al., "Time-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy: imaging based on Raman free induction decay," Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 1505-1507 (2002).
9. J. Cheng, et al., "Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering correlation spectroscopy: Probing dynamical processes with chemical specificity," J. Phys. Chem. A 106, 8561-8568 (2002).
10. (3)) - Perturbative and diagrammatic approaches," IEEE J. Quant. Electr. 20, 37-42 (1984).
11. S. Mukamel, in Principles of nonlinear optical spectroscopy (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995).
12. G. W. H. Wurpel, et al., "Direct measurement of chain order in single lipid mono- and bilayers with multiplex CARS," J. Phys. Chem. B (2003).
13. S. A. Akhmanov, et al., "Polarization active Raman spectroscopy and coherent Raman elipsometry," Sov. Phys. JETP 47, 667-678 (1978).
14. J. Cheng, et al., "An epi-detected coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (E-CARS) microscope with high spectral resolution and high sensitivity," J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 1277-1280 (2001).
15. D. Oron, et al., "Femtosecond Phase-and-Polarization Control for Background-Free Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy," Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 213902 (2003).