Inventors:
Marcus T. Cicerone - Urbana MD, US
Young Jong Lee - Gaithersburg MD, US
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, the National Institute of Standards and Technology - Washington DC
International Classification:
G01J 3/44
Abstract:
Methods and systems are described for suppressing nonresonant background in broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy and spectroscopy. The methods and systems improve sensitivity and signal to noise ratio in CARS.