Measurement of the surface-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (SECARS) due to the 1574 cm-1 surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) mode of benzenethiol using low-power (<20 mW) CW diode lasers

Roshan L. Aggarwal*, Lewis W. Farrar, Nathan G. Greeneltch, Richard P. Van Duyne, Dennis L. Polla

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Abstract

The surface-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (SECARS) from a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of benzenethiol on a silver-coated surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate has been measured for the 1574 cm-1 SERS mode. A value of 9.6 ± 1.7 × 10 -14 W was determined for the resonant component of the SECARS signal using 17.8 mW of 784.9 nm pump laser power and 7.1 mW of 895.5 nm Stokes laser power; the pump and Stokes lasers were polarized parallel to each other but perpendicular to the grooves of the diffraction grating in the spectrometer. The measured value of resonant component of the SECARS signal is in agreement with the calculated value of 9.3× 10-14 W using the measured value of 8.7 ± 0.5 cm-1 for the SERS linewidth T (full width at half-maximum) and the value of 5.7 ± 1.4× 10-7 for the product of the Raman cross section σSERS and the surface concentration Ns of the benzenethiol SAM. The xxxx component of the resonant part of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility |3X(3)R xxxx| for the 1574 cm-1 SERS mode has been determined to be 4.3 ± 1.1× 10-5 cmg-1s2. The SERS enhancement factor for the 1574 cm-1 mode was determined to be 3.6 ± 0.9 × 107 using the value of 1.8 × 10 15 molecules/cm2 for Ns.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)132-135
Number of pages4
JournalApplied Spectroscopy
Volume67
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2013

Keywords

  • SECARS
  • SERS
  • Surface-enhanced Raman scattering
  • Surface-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Instrumentation
  • Spectroscopy

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