Electronic Preresonance Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy
Abstract
Optical microscopy has generated great impact for modern research. While fluorescence microscopy provides the ultimate sensitivity, it generally lacks chemical information. Complementarily, vibrational imaging methods provide rich chemical-bond-specific contrasts. Nonetheless, they usually suffer from unsatisfying sensitivity or compromised biocompatibility. Recently, electronic preresonance stimulated Raman scattering (EPR-SRS) microscopy was reported, achieving simultaneous high detection sensitivity and superb vibrational specificity of chromophores. With newly synthesized Raman-active dyes, this method readily breaks the optical color barrier of fluorescence microscopy and is well-suited for supermultiplex imaging in biological samples. In this Perspective, we first review previous utilizations of electronic resonance in various Raman spectroscopy and microscopy. We then discuss the physical origin and uniqueness of the electronic preresonance region, followed by quantitative analysis of the enhancement factors involved in EPR-SRS microscopy. On this basis, we provide an outlook for future development as well as the broad applications in biophotonics.
Additional Information
© 2018 American Chemical Society. ACS Editors' Choice - This is an open access article published under an ACS AuthorChoice License, which permits copying and redistribution of the article or any adaptations for non-commercial purposes. Received: January 21, 2018. Accepted: July 12, 2018. Published: July 12, 2018. We are grateful for discussions with Lixue Shi, Zhixing Chen, Louis Brus, and Sunney Xie. W.M. acknowledges support from NIH Director's New Innovator Award (1DP2EB016573) and R01 (EB020892) and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. The authors declare no competing financial interest.Attached Files
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- PMC6077771
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- 1DP2EB016573
- NIH
- R01 EB020892
- NIH
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
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