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Nonlinear optical microscopy with vibrational contrast
Author(s) -
WINTERHALDER M. J.,
ZUMBUSCH A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of microscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2818
pISSN - 0022-2720
DOI - 10.1111/jmi.12131
Subject(s) - raman scattering , microscopy , contrast (vision) , nonlinear optical , optics , raman spectroscopy , optical microscope , sum frequency generation , nonlinear optics , nonlinear system , scattering , materials science , nanotechnology , physics , laser , scanning electron microscope , quantum mechanics
Summary Nonlinear optical techniques which provide vibrational contrast have gained increasing attention in microscopy during the last two decades. After outlining the potential of these techniques, we give a brief introduction to coherent anti‐Stokes Raman scattering, stimulated Raman scattering and sum frequency generation and discuss their suitability for contrast generation in optical microscopy. The rapid developments in these fields during the last decade have resulted in many different applications. Three exemplary application areas will therefore be presented in the last part of this manuscript.