Fast signal analysis in Rotating-Polarization CARS
microscopy

• Authors: Giuseppe de Vito , Vincenzo Piazza
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Rotating Polarization Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (RP-CARS) is a novel approach to CARS microscopy that takes advantage of polarizationdependent selection rules in order to gain information
about molecule orientation anisotropy and direction
within the optical point spread function. However, in
the original implementation of this technique, the lockin
amplifier-based acquisition was quite time demanding.
Here we present a new software-based approach that permits
a great speed-up in the RP-CARS images acquisition
process.

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Optical Data Processing and Storage
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

10 - 4 - 2013

online

27 - 2 - 2014

accepted

3 - 10 - 2013

Contributors

author

Giuseppe de Vito

• Center for Nanotechnology
  Innovation @NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza San
  Silvestro 12, I-56127
• NEST, Scuola Normale
  Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

author

Vincenzo Piazza

• Center for Nanotechnology
  Innovation @NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza San
  Silvestro 12, I-56127

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/odps-2014-0001