Optical pulse shaping for selective excitation of coherent molecular vibrations by stimulated Raman scattering

Joseph B. Geddes III; Daniel L. Marks; Stephen A. Boppart M.D.

doi:10.1117/12.809539

13 February 2009 Optical pulse shaping for selective excitation of coherent molecular vibrations by stimulated Raman scattering

Joseph B. Geddes III, Daniel L. Marks, Stephen A. Boppart M.D.

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Proceedings Volume 7183, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences IX; 718311 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.809539
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) can be used to identify biological molecules from their vibrational spectra in tissue. A single double-chirped broadband optical pulse can excite a broad spectrum of resonant molecular vibrations in the fingerprint spectral region. Such a pulse also excites nonresonant CARS, particularly from water. We describe a theoretical technique to design an optical pulse to selectively excite coherent vibrations in a target molecular species so that the CARS signal generated is increased. The signal from other molecules is reduced, since the incident pulse does not excite them to have coherent vibrations. As an example, we apply the technique to design pulses to elicit increased CARS signal from a mixture of one or more of the alcohols methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol. We also show how such pulse designs can be used to selectively excite one member of closely related complex biological species. As measured interferometrically, the CARS signal from three phosphodiester stretch modes of DNA can be increased to more than ten times that of the analogous signal from RNA when the pulse design technique is used.

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Joseph B. Geddes III, Daniel L. Marks, and Stephen A. Boppart M.D. "Optical pulse shaping for selective excitation of coherent molecular vibrations by stimulated Raman scattering", Proc. SPIE 7183, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences IX, 718311 (13 February 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.809539

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