Rotating-polarization CARS microscopy: Combining chemical and molecular orientation sensitivity

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 29369-29377

  De Vito, Giuseppe ^a,b   Bifone, Angelo ^a   Piazza, Vincenzo ^a  

^a CENTER FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION NEST   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PHOTONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ANTI-STOKES; ANTI-STOKES EMISSION; AVERAGE ORIENTATION; BRAIN CIRCUITRY; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DIFFERENCES; LOCAL AVERAGE; MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPIDS; MOLECULAR BONDS; MYELINATED AXONS; NONLINEAR PROCESS; SPATIAL ANISOTROPY; VIBRATIONAL MODES;

MOLECULAR ORIENTATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; ROTATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; MICE; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; ROTATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84872035566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029369     Document Type: Article

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