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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2009
Daniel L. Marks, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Joseph B. Geddes, Iii, Champaign, IL (US);
Stephen A. Boppart, Champaign, IL (US);
Daniel L. Marks, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Joseph B. Geddes, III, Champaign, IL (US);
Stephen A. Boppart, Champaign, IL (US);
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for selectively driving the vibrations of normal modes of a target molecule into coherence using stimulated Raman scattering. In concert, many vibrations produce a larger anti-Stokes signal than a single vibration. The same illumination does not drive other molecules to have coherent vibrations, so these molecules produce a weaker signal. Target and confounder molecules can be distinguished by pulses that drive many vibrations coherently, with applications in coherent Raman microspectroscopy.