Hybrid 2-color/3-color background-free broadband CARS with passive polarization optics

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Abstract

Broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (B-CARS) in a hybrid 2-color/3-color excitation regime has been shown to be a photon-efficient method of generating CARS across the entire vibrational region of interest (fingerprint and C-H stretch). We extend here our spectral interferometric polarized CARS (SIP-CARS) approach to a hybrid 2-color/3-color excitation regime, demonstrate that the power/polarization dependence for both 2- color and 3-color excitation agrees with theory, explore the application of SIP-CARS for the special case of anisotropic, birefringent materials (using collagen) and present in vivo lipid imaging of different mutations of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans with modified lipid distributions. The extension of SIP-CARS to a hybrid excitation scheme makes possible a fast, all-optical and quantitative method for Raman imaging.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XIX
EditorsAmmasi Periasamy, Peter T. C. So, Karsten Konig
PublisherSPIE
Volume10882
ISBN (Electronic)9781510624061
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Feb 2019
EventMultiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XIX 2019 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 3 Feb 20196 Feb 2019

Conference

ConferenceMultiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XIX 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period3/02/20196/02/2019

Keywords

  • Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering
  • Non-resonant background
  • Polarized Raman
  • Raman depolarization

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