Background-free Brillouin spectroscopy in scattering media at 780  nm via stimulated Brillouin scattering.

We demonstrate the effectiveness of stimulated Brillouin scattering for background-free Brillouin spectroscopy in scattering media within the biological spectral window. Using two nearly counter-propagating continuous-wave diode laser beams at 780 nm, we acquired transmission stimulated Brillouin point spectra in 10 mm and 500 μm thick Intralipid tissue phantoms with ∼100  μm and ∼16  μm diameter focal points, respectively. Stimulated gain spectra with high signal-to-noise ratio (8.7-30.7 dB) and frequency accuracy (6-72 MHz) were obtained at 20  MHz/10  ms and 20  MHz/100  ms through 0.24-3.36 mean-free paths of tissue phantoms. Our results suggest that stimulated Brillouin gain can be useful for imaging of Brillouin resonances in submillimeter-thick scattering samples.

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