Ultrabroadband multiplex CARS microspectroscopy and imaging using a subnanosecond supercontinuum light source in the deep near infrared.

Subnanosecond supercontinuum (SC) has been generated by a 1,064 nm microchip laser combined with a photonic crystal fiber. The ultrabroadband (>2,000 cm(-1)) SC has facilitated multiplex coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microspectroscopy in the spectral range from 1,000 to 3,000 cm(-1) with lateral and depth spatial resolution of 0.9 and 4.6 microm, respectively. A clear CARS image of a Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Bright Yellow 2 cell has been obtained with high vibrational contrast.

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