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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review A : Atomic, molecular, and optical physics [1990-2015] Année : 2013

Numerical simulation of polarization-resolved second harmonic microscopy in birefringent media

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Polarization-resolved second-harmonic microscopy has recently emerged as a valuable technique for in situ imaging of collagen structure in tissues. Nevertheless, collagen-rich tissues such as tendon, ligament, skin dermis, bone, cornea, or artery exhibit a heterogeneous and anisotropic architecture that results in complex optical properties. While experimental evidence of polarization distortions has been reported in various tissues, the physics of second-harmonic imaging within such tissues is not fully understood yet. In this work, we performed numerical simulations of polarization-resolved second-harmonic generation in a strongly focused regime within a birefringent tissue. We show that vectorial components due to strong focusing have a rather small effect on the measurement of the second-harmonic tensorial response, while birefringence and optical dispersion may affect these measurements dramatically. We show indeed that a difference in the focal field distribution for ordinary and extraordinary waves results in different phase-matching conditions, which strongly affects the relative efficacy of second-harmonic generation for different polarizations. These results are of great interest for extracting reliable quantitative parameters from second-harmonic images. ©2013 American Physical Society
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Ivan Gusachenko, Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein. Numerical simulation of polarization-resolved second harmonic microscopy in birefringent media. Physical Review A : Atomic, molecular, and optical physics [1990-2015], 2013, 88 (5), pp.053811. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevA.88.053811⟩. ⟨hal-00940781⟩
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