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One photon up, one photon down

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A microscopy technique based on stimulated Raman scattering achieves label-free imaging with very high sensitivity.

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Figure 1: Before passing through the sample, the pump laser (blue) is unmodulated and the probe laser (red) is modulated, that is, its amplitude is varied with a high frequency.

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  1. Enrico Gratton and Michelle Digman are at the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA. egratton@uci.edu,

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