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High-resolution Fourier-transform infrared chemical imaging with multiple synchrotron beams

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This advance allows truly diffraction-limited high-resolution imaging over the entire mid-infrared spectrum with high chemical sensitivity and fast acquisition speed while maintaining high-quality SNR.
Abstract
Conventional Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) microspectroscopic systems are limited by an inevitable trade-off between spatial resolution, acquisition time, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and sample coverage. We present an FTIR imaging approach that substantially extends current capabilities by combining multiple synchrotron beams with wide-field detection. This advance allows truly diffraction-limited high-resolution imaging over the entire mid-infrared spectrum with high chemical sensitivity and fast acquisition speed while maintaining high-quality SNR.

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Advances in mid-infrared spectroscopy enabled by supercontinuum laser sources

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Subcellular mapping of living cells via synchrotron microFTIR and ZnS hemispheres

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Challenges and opportunities in IR nanospectroscopy measurements of energy materials

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Label-free water sensors using hybrid polymer-dielectric mid-infrared optical waveguides.

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Comments on recent reports on infrared spectral detection of disease markers in blood components

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