Method for NRB-free nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy and miscroscopy

US8120772B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology · US

Inventors

• Marcus Cicerone · Atlanta, US
• Young Jong Lee · Seoul, KR

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 3, 2009
• Grant date: Feb 21, 2012
• Expiry date: Sep 16, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2021/653
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Methods and systems are described for suppressing nonresonant background in broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy and spectroscopy. The methods and systems improve sensitivity and signal to noise ratio in CARS.