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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 34, Issue 21, Pages 3262-3264Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.003262
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We demonstrate an approach to coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy/microscopy based on spectral compression of femtosecond pulses emitted by a compact Er-fiber oscillator. Spectral compression is achieved by group-velocity mismatched second-harmonic generation in periodically poled nonlinear crystals, and it allows efficient synthesis of synchronized narrow-bandwidth ( less than 10 cm(-1)) pump and Stokes pulses with the frequency difference continuously tunable up to similar to 3000 cm(-1). CARS signal enhancement by up to 3 orders of magnitude is obtained by interferometric superposition with a phase-coherent local oscillator field, also synthesized by spectral compression. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America
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