Final Report Summary - 3D3CSI (Three-dimensional clinical coherent chemically-sensitive imaging)
A single ultrabroad bandwidth Ti: Sapphire laser is tailored to meet the requirements for CARS and OCT where bandwidth coverage of more than 4 000 cm-1 for CARS to be capable of imaging from fingerprint to CH-stretch region together with a flat spectral density profile for OCT (modulations less than 2 dB) are essential. We demonstrate this multimodal CARS / OCT system in thick phantoms and biological specimen.