Stimulated Raman scattering imaging for studying specific species

Eynas Amer; Per Gren; Mikael Sjödahl

doi:10.1117/12.2189460

24 August 2015 Stimulated Raman scattering imaging for studying specific species

Eynas Amer, Per Gren, Mikael Sjödahl

Proceedings Volume 9660, SPECKLE 2015: VI International Conference on Speckle Metrology; 96600V (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2189460
Event: SPECKLE 2015: VI International Conference on Speckle Metrology, 2015, Guanajuato, Mexico

Abstract

The stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) signal in diffuse light has been recorded using an optical imaging technique based on spatial modulation. A frequency doubled Q-switched Nd-YAG laser (wavelength 532 nm) has been used to pump a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) cylinder. The frequency tripled (355 nm) beam from the same laser is used to pump an optical parametric oscillator (OPO). The Stokes beam (from the OPO) has been tuned to 631.27 nm so that the frequency difference between the pump and the Stokes beams fits a Raman active vibrational mode of the PMMA molecule (2956 cm^-1). The two laser beams were overlapped in time and space on a PMMA cylinder resulting in a gain of the Stokes beam through the SRS process of about 4.0 %. For separating the SRS signal, the pump beam was spatially modulated with fringes produced in a Michelson interferometer. The gain of the Stokes beam due to SRS was separated from the Stokes beam background in the Fourier domain. The intensity image has been calculated from an inverse Fourier transform of the separated gain signal. The intensity image shows a gain of the Stokes beam at the area of overlap between the pump beam fringes and the Stokes beam compared to the undisturbed surrounding. The results show that spatial modulation of the pump beam is a promising method to separate the weak SRS signal from the Stokes beam background. This technique can be applied to pin-point specific species and record its spatial and temporal distribution.

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Eynas Amer, Per Gren, and Mikael Sjödahl "Stimulated Raman scattering imaging for studying specific species ", Proc. SPIE 9660, SPECKLE 2015: VI International Conference on Speckle Metrology, 96600V (24 August 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2189460

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Modulation

Raman scattering

Polymethylmethacrylate

Raman spectroscopy

Molecules

Fourier transforms

Optical parametric oscillators

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