Spatially dependent Rabi oscillations: an approach to sub-diffraction-limited CARS microscopy
Optics
2010-07-06 v1
Abstract
We present a theoretical investigation of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) that is modulated by periodically depleting the ground state population through Rabi oscillations driven by an additional control laser. We find that such a process generates optical sidebands in the CARS spectrum and that the frequency of the sidebands depends on the intensity of the control laser light field. We show that analyzing the sideband frequency upon scanning the beams across the sample allows one to spatially resolve emitter positions where a spatial resolution of 65 nm, which is well below the diffraction-limit, can be obtained.
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@article{arxiv.0911.2332,
title = {Spatially dependent Rabi oscillations: an approach to sub-diffraction-limited CARS microscopy},
author = {Willem P. Beeker and Chris J. Lee and Klaus-Jochen Boller and Petra Gross and Carsten Cleff and Carsten Fallnich and Herman L. Offerhaus and Jennifer L. Herek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.2332},
year = {2010}
}