Invited Article: Heterodyne dual-polarization epi-detected CARS microscopy for chemical and topographic imaging of interfaces
Invited Article: Heterodyne dual-polarization epi-detected CARS microscopy for chemical and topographic imaging of interfaces
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DOI:
10.1063/1.5027256
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发表时间:
2018-09-01
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5.6
通讯作者:
Borri, Paola
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作者:
Langbein, Wolfgang;Regan, David;Borri, Paola
Coherent Raman Scattering (CRS) has emerged in the last decade as a powerful multiphoton microscopy technique offering chemically specific label-free imaging in real time with high three-dimensional spatial resolution. Many technical realizations of CRS microscopy have been proposed to remove, suppress, or account for the nonresonant background in the nonlinear susceptibility which complicates spectral analysis and reduces image contrast. Here, we demonstrate coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy using a dual-polarization balanced heterodyne detection in epigeometry (eH-CARS), providing background-free chemically specific image contrast for nanoparticles and interfaces, shot-noise limited detection, and phase sensitivity. We show the sensitivity and selectivity of eH-CARS in comparison with forward CARS and stimulated Raman scattering on polystyrene beads in agarose gel. As an important biologically relevant application, we demonstrate eH-CARS imaging of individual lipid bilayers with high contrast and topographic sensitivity. (C) 2018 Author(s).