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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 1985
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1983
Lawrence S Goldberg, Alexandria, VA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) method and apparatus for producing a broadband CARS vibrational spectrum of a sample in a single picosecond laser pulse. A laser pulse having a picosecond duration and a frequency of .omega. is directed into a liquid cell containing D.sub.2 O which generates a picosecond continuum pulse having a broad range of frequencies .omega..sub.WL and a picosecond duration. A second harmonic of the laser pulse is produced to form a probe pulse having a frequency of .omega..sub.1 and a picosecond duration. The probe pulse and the continuum pulse are spatially and temporally combined and the combined pulses are directed into a sample to excite the Raman active vibrational resonances in the sample. In response the sample emits a beam of radiation which contains an anti-Stokes spectrum of energy characteristic of the sample. The anti-Stokes spectrum is separated from the beam of radiation for detection and analysis.