The simultaneous mapping and the specificity of different chemical species are desirable in several biological and biomedical applications. The stimulated Raman Scattering technique is a proven and well-established label-free method to map the distributions of individual species in a multi-component-based system due to the linear dependence of signals on concentration and its chemical selectivity. In this framework, spectral resolution, i.e., the ability to distinguish closely lying resonances, plays a fundamental role. Here in this work, the cross-correlation of Ti:Sa & OPO femtosecond laser beams in a stimulated Raman scattering microscope is measured. The separation between protein and lipid bands in the C-H region is important for biochemical research and is successfully classified.
A Stimulated Raman Scattering CMOS Pixel Using a High-Speed Charge Modulator and Lock-in Amplifier