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Mechanical anisotropy with Brillouin spectroscopy in one shot

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Brillouin light scattering anisotropy microscopy affords single-shot collection of angle-resolved phonon dispersion, enabling the mapping of mechanical anisotropies in living matter with a frequency resolution of 10 MHz and a spatial resolution of 2 µm.

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Fig. 1: Brillouin light scattering anisotropy microscopy (BLAM).

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    Yogeshwari S. Ambekar & Giuliano Scarcelli

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Ambekar, Y.S., Scarcelli, G. Mechanical anisotropy with Brillouin spectroscopy in one shot. Nat. Photon. 18, 211–212 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01392-4

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