Differential two-signal picosecond-pulse coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering imaging microscopy by using a dual-mode optical parametric oscillator

Opt Lett. 2007 Nov 15;32(22):3254-6. doi: 10.1364/ol.32.003254.

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a novel differential two-signal technique of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) imaging microscopy using a picosecond (ps) optical parametric oscillator (OPO). By adjusting a Lyot filter inside the cavity, we operated the OPO oscillating in two stable modes separated by a few nanometers. The CARS images generated by the two modes are separated by a spectrograph behind the microscope setup, and their differential image is directly obtained by balanced lock-in detection. The feasibility of the technique is experimentally verified by imaging micrometer-sized polystyrene beads immersed in water.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Equipment Design
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Microscopy / instrumentation*
  • Microscopy / methods
  • Optics and Photonics*
  • Oscillometry / instrumentation*
  • Oscillometry / methods
  • Polystyrenes / chemistry
  • Scattering, Radiation
  • Spectrophotometry / methods
  • Spectrum Analysis, Raman*
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / instrumentation
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods

Substances

  • Polystyrenes