Coherent Anti-Stokes Hyper-Raman Spectroscopy
Abstract Coherent Raman scattering spectroscopies have been established as a powerful tool for investigating molecular systems with high chemical specificity. The existing coherent Raman scattering techniques detect only Raman active modes, which are a part of the whole molecular vibrations. Here, w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55507-0 |
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| Summary: | Abstract Coherent Raman scattering spectroscopies have been established as a powerful tool for investigating molecular systems with high chemical specificity. The existing coherent Raman scattering techniques detect only Raman active modes, which are a part of the whole molecular vibrations. Here, we report the first observation of coherent anti-Stokes hyper-Raman scattering (CAHRS) spectroscopy, which allows measuring hyper-Raman active vibrations at high speed. The CAHRS process relies on a fifth-order nonlinear process that combines hyper-Raman scattering with coherent Raman scattering. Observed signals are proven to come from the CAHRS process through various experiments concerning the dependences of the signals on incident laser powers, time-delay, polarizations, and selection rules of molecular vibrations. Comparisons of CAHRS signals with spontaneous hyper-Raman signals from para-nitroaniline solutions and benzene liquid manifest much higher signal-to-noise ratios of CAHRS signals than spontaneous hyper-Raman signals. This study illustrates that CAHRS spectroscopy can offer additional information on molecular vibrations unobtainable from the present coherent Raman techniques at a much higher speed than spontaneous hyper-Raman spectroscopy. |
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| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |