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Limiting temporal and spectral resolution in spectroscopy and microscopy of coherent Raman scattering with chirped ultrashort laser pulses

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Chirped ultrashort light pulses offer new options for coherent nonlinear spectroscopy and microscopy. We show here that the temporal resolution of spectroscopy and microscopy based on coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) can be smoothly tuned within a broad range, with upper and lower bounds of this range controlled by the pump and probe pulse durations. The spectral resolution of CARS spectroscopy and microscopy is analyzed as a function of the duration and chirp of the pump pulses. Pulses with a periodic phase modulation can provide the limiting spectral resolution of the CARS technique, corresponding to the lower bound of uncertainty in spectral measurements, dictated by the uncertainty principle.

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Translated from Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, Vol. 127, No. 5, 2005, pp. 945–956.

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Zheltikov, A.M. Limiting temporal and spectral resolution in spectroscopy and microscopy of coherent Raman scattering with chirped ultrashort laser pulses. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 100, 833–843 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1947308

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