Photothermal Microscopy and
Spectroscopy Webinar

The advent of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy in 2008 has launched a rapidly growing field in biophotonics. By imaging chemical bonds with high sensitivity, speed, specificity and resolution, SRS microscopy has matured into a powerful tool, making an increasingly broad impact in chemistry, materials science and biomedicine. In this talk we will introduce a newly developed physical framework to understand the optical response of molecules under two coherent light irradiation, which provides novel insights to the uniqueness of SRS spectroscopy and microscopy. Then we will discuss exciting new research areas and applications enabled by SRS, including (1) bioorthogonal chemical imaging, (2) metabolic imaging of cells and tissues, (3) super-multiplexed optical imaging and profiling, (4) single-molecule vibrational spectroscopy and nanoscopy, (5) single-particle nanomedicine.