Applications

CARS和SRS显微镜

Vibrational imaging provides chemical specificity, which is useful in biological microscopy, and pharmaceutical and material science, especially where other microscopy techniques provide ambiguous results and labels cannot be used. Spontaneous Raman scattering microscopy, while sensitive, is slow. However, its nonlinear counterparts – coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) – can be used for high-speed and high-sensitivity label-free vibrational imaging.

In CARS microscopy, two beams are used to produce radiation at a third wavelength via a vibrational level of the sample. The energy difference between the two beams can be tuned to different vibrational levels, thus providing chemical imaging contrast. The produced CARS signal is at a different wavelength that is usually background-free, which makes its detection relatively simple. However, CARS distorts the vibrational lineshapes and possesses a nonresonant signal component, which complicates chemical attribution. SRS is free from these disadvantages; however, its signal is a small modulation on one of the incoming beams and requires an elaborate detection scheme.

CRONUS-2P is a femtosecond laser providing three simultaneous and synchronized outputs with high repetition rate, high output power, short pulse duration, and GDD control, making it the ultimate source for nonlinear microscopy. Two outputs are independently tunable in the 680 – 960 nm and 960 – 1300 nm ranges, while the third is fixed at 1025 nm. The three simultaneous outputs enable advanced CARS and SRS applications with dual-band imaging, a broader selection of vibrational resonance frequencies, constant-difference dual‑beam tuning, resonant enhancement, and more.

  • 三个同步步输出
  • 自动化 GDD 控制
  • 瓦特级高输出功率、高重复频率
  • 工业级设计
  • 高输出稳定性
  • 11、20、40 或 76 MHz 的重复频率
  • < 50 fs 的脉宽
  • 高达 0.6 μJ 的脉冲能量
  • 高达 20 W 的输出功率
  • 工业级设计
  • CEP 稳定
  • 重复频率锁定至外部信号源
  • 100 fs – 20 ps 连续可调脉宽
  • 最大单脉冲能量 4 mJ
  • 最高输出功率 20 W
  • 单脉冲 – 1 MHz 重复频率
  • BiBurst 脉冲串功能
  • 自动谐波发生器(高达 5 次谐波)
  • 190 nm – 16000 nm 可调波长
  • 单脉冲 – 2 MHz 重复频率
  • 最高泵浦功率 80 W
  • 最大泵浦单脉冲能量 2 mJ
  • 全自动化控制

CARS-imaging guidance for fs-laser ablation precision surgery

T. Meyer, R. Ackermann, R. Kammel, M. Schmitt, S. Nolte, A. Tünnermann, and J. Popp, The Analyst 24 (144), 7310-7317 (2019).

Vibrational spectroscopy and imaging with non-resonant coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering: double stimulated Raman scattering scheme

D. S. Choi, C. H. Kim, T. Lee, S. Nah, H. Rhee, and M. Cho, Optics Express 16 (27), 23558 (2019).

Microsphere-aided optical microscopy and its applications for super-resolution imaging

P. K. Upputuri, and M. Pramanik, Optics Communications 404, 32-41 (2017).

Chirped time-resolved CARS microscopy with square-pulse excitation

P. K. Upputuri, L. Gong, and H. Wang, Optics Express 8 (22), 9611 (2014).

Super-resolution coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy with photonic nanojets

P. K. Upputuri, Z. Wu, L. Gong, C. K. Ong, and H. Wang, Optics Express 11 (22), 12890 (2014).