Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) describes a family of techniques first discovered and
developed in the 1960s. Whereas the nascent history of the technique is parallel to that of …

Carotenoids are, along with chlorophylls, the most abundant pigments found in nature. They
are present in most organisms including humans but can be synthesized only by plants and …

Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) is a new ultrafast spectroscopic
technique that provides vibrational structural information with high temporal (50-fs) and …

The primary event that initiates vision is the light-induced 11-cis to all-trans isomerization of
retinal in the visual pigment rhodopsin. Despite decades of study with the traditional tools of …

Ultrafast surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has the potential to study
molecular dynamics near plasmonic surfaces to better understand plasmon-mediated …

In an extended introduction, key aspects of resonance Raman spectroscopy (RRS) such as
enhanced sensitivity and selectivity are briefly discussed in comparison with normal RS. The …

Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) is an ultrafast nonlinear optical
technique that provides vibrational structural information with high temporal (sub‐50 fs) …

A novel type of non-linear Raman microscopy, femtosecond stimulated Raman microscopy
(FSRM), is introduced. It employs femtosecond white light pulses and intense picosecond …

We report high-yield triplet generation by singlet fission upon photoexcitation of a new
aggregate of the carotenoid all-trans 3 R, 3′ R-zeaxanthin. The yield is determined by …

The laser, detection system, and methods that enable femtosecond broadband stimulated
Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) are presented in detail. FSRS is a unique tool for obtaining …