Wavefront shaping enhanced Raman scattering in a turbid medium. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Spontaneous Raman scattering is a powerful tool for chemical sensing and imaging but suffers from a weak signal. In this Letter, we present an application of adaptive optics to enhance the Raman scattering signal detected through a turbid, optically thick material. This technique utilizes recent advances in wavefront shaping techniques for focusing light through a turbid media and applies them to chemical detection to achieve a signal enhancement with little sacrifice to the overall simplicity of the experimental setup. With this technique, we demonstrate an enhancement in the Raman signal from titanium dioxide particles through a highly scattering material. This technique may pave the way to label-free tracking using the optical memory effect.

published proceedings

  • Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Thompson, J. V., Throckmorton, G. A., Hokr, B. H., & Yakovlev, V. V.

citation count

  • 37

complete list of authors

  • Thompson, Jonathan V||Throckmorton, Graham A||Hokr, Brett H||Yakovlev, Vladislav V

publication date

  • April 2016