Stimulated Emission Pumping Enabling Sub-Diffraction-Limited Spatial Resolution in CARS Microscopy
Journal article published in 2012 by
Carsten Cleff,
Petra Gross,
Carsten Fallnich,
Herman L. Offerhaus,
Sven Dobner,
Jennifer L. Herek,
Kai Kruse,
Willem P. Beeker,
Chris J. Lee,
Klaus-Jochen Boller
Abstract
Suppression of CARS signal generation is demonstrated by equalization of the ground and Raman states via a control state in a theoretical investigation. Using donut-shaped control light fields for population transfer results in sub-diffraction-limited spatial resolution CARS microscopy.