Nature Communications (May 2016)

Direct imaging of molecular symmetry by coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering

  • Carsten Cleff,
  • Alicja Gasecka,
  • Patrick Ferrand,
  • Hervé Rigneault,
  • Sophie Brasselet,
  • Julien Duboisset

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11562
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Coherent Raman imaging is a high fidelity technique to obtain chemical-sensitive images, however sub-diffraction molecular organization information is still missing. Here, the authors exploit molecular bond symmetries to access the microscopic organization of molecules in a single image acquisition.