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Pita, I,Hendaoui, N,Liu, N,Kumbham, M,Tofail, SAM,Peremans, A,Silien, C
2013
January
Optics Express
High resolution imaging with differential infrared absorption micro-spectroscopy
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STRUCTURED-ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY RAMAN-SCATTERING MICROSCOPY THEORETICALLY UNLIMITED RESOLUTION DEPLETION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY OPTICAL RECONSTRUCTION MICROSCOPY VIBRATIONAL-ENERGY RELAXATION GROUND-STATE-DEPLETION SYNCHROTRON-RADIATION CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY DIFFRACTION-LIMIT
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25632
25642
Although confocal infrared (IR) absorption micro-spectroscopy is well established for far-field chemical imaging, its scope remains restricted since diffraction limits the spatial resolution to values a little above half the radiation wavelength. Yet, the successful implementations of below-the-diffraction limit far-field fluorescence microscopies using saturated irradiation patterns for example for stimulated-emission depletion and saturated structured-illumination suggest the possibility of using a similar optical patterning strategy for infrared absorption mapping at high resolution. Simulations are used to show that the simple mapping of the difference in transmitted/reflected IR energy between a saturated vortex-shaped beam and a Gaussian reference with a confocal microscope affords the generation of high-resolution vibrational absorption images. On the basis of experimentally relevant parameters, the simulations of the differential absorption scheme reveal a spatial resolution better than a tenth of the wavelength for incident energies about a decade above the saturation threshold. The saturated structured illumination concepts are thus expected to be compatible with the establishment of point-like point-spread functions for measuring the absorbance of samples with a scanning confocal microscope recording the differential transmission/reflection. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
10.1364/OE.21.025632
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