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To focus-match or not to focus-match inverse spatially offset Raman spectroscopy : a question of light penetration

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Date
14/03/2022
Author
Shillito, Georgina E.
McMillan, Lewis
Bruce, Graham D.
Dholakia, Kishan
Funder
NERC
EPSRC
EPSRC
European Commission
Grant ID
NEH002227/1
EP/P030017/1
EP/R004854/1
863203
Keywords
QC Physics
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Abstract
The ability to identify the contents of a sealed container, without the need to extract a sample, is desirable in applications ranging from forensics to product quality control. One technique suited to this is inverse spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (ISORS) which illuminates a sample of interest with an annular beam of light and collects Raman scattering from the centre of the ring, thereby retrieving the chemical signature of the contents while suppressing signal from the container. Here we explore in detail the relative benefits of a recently developed variant of ISORS, called focus-matched ISORS. In this variant, the Fourier relationship between the annular beam and a tightly focused Bessel beam is exploited to focus the excitation light inside the sample and to match the focal point of excitation and collection optics to increase the signal from the contents without out compromising the suppression of the container signal. Using a flexible experimental setup which can realise both traditional and focus-matched ISORS, and Monte-Carlo simulations, we elucidate the relative advantages of the two techniques for a range of optical properties of sample and container.
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Shillito , G E , McMillan , L , Bruce , G D & Dholakia , K 2022 , ' To focus-match or not to focus-match inverse spatially offset Raman spectroscopy : a question of light penetration ' , Optics Express , vol. 30 , no. 6 , pp. 8876-8888 . https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.451496
Publication
Optics Express
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.451496
ISSN
1094-4087
Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.
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Funding: The work was supported by funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P030017/1 and EP/R004854/1) and the H2020 FETOPEN project “Dynamic” (EC-GA 863203).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/24994

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