coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) with the advantages of time-resolved CARS
spectroscopy. Instantaneous coherent broadband excitation of several characteristic
molecular vibrations and the subsequent probing of these vibrations by an optimally shaped
time-delayed narrowband laser pulse help to suppress the nonresonant background and to
retrieve the species-specific signal. We used this technique for coherent Raman …