Two orders of magnitude faster tuning and about 10x faster image acquisition in SRS microscopy including the fingerprint region of relevant biological samples

We have developed a new shot noise limited light source for Coherent Raman microscopy and other nonlinear microscopy modalities such as SHG and multiphoton fluorescence. Compared to the market leading SRS light source it achieves 100x faster tuning for random wavelength access including power control and dispersion compensation. Further switching from 80 to 40MHz repetition rate with subharmonic modulation frequency of 20MHz reduces the pixel dwell time in theory by a factor of 8 for the same signal to noise ratio. We will present a comparison to the prevailing SRS light source along with fingerprint images of relevant biological samples.