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Raman Spectroscopy: Novel Advances and Applications: 2nd Edition
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Raman Spectroscopy: Novel Advances and Applications: 2nd Edition

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2024 | Viewed by 1793

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Dr. István Csarnovics

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Department of Experimental Physics, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, H-4026 Debrecen, Hungary
Interests: nanoparticles; plasmonics; photonics; SERS
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Dear Colleagues,

Raman spectroscopy records the spectrum of light inelastically scattered by a medium upon its excitation with monochromatic light and is capable of material characterization through its characteristic vibrations. This nondestructive method can give information on chemical structure and bonding, phase and polymorphism, as well as contamination and impurities of the medium, and even on its intrinsic stress and temperature. Recent developments in Raman instrumentation allow fabricating highly sensitive and selective, yet compact and robust Raman spectrometers. This is accompanied by a rapid advancement in novel Raman techniques, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering, spatially offset Raman spectroscopy, stimulated Raman scattering, etc. This Special Issue of Applied Sciences aims to cover recent advances and novel applications of Raman spectroscopy, including new achievements in the field of Raman instrumentation, methodology, linear and nonlinear processes, and different applications. 

Dr. István Csarnovics
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Raman spectroscopy
  • material characterization
  • vibrational spectroscopy
  • surface-enhanced Raman scattering
  • SERS
  • stimulated Raman scattering
  • SRS
  • CARS
  • Raman instrumentation
  • Raman laser
  • resonant Raman spectroscopy
  • Raman sensing
  • Raman applications
  • biomedical
  • polymer characterization
  • nanostructures
  • semiconductors
  • geology
  • mineralogy
  • life sciences
  • cosmetics
  • pharmacology

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Comparative Study on Handheld, Modular, and Laboratory Raman Instruments for the Analysis of Colon Tissues and Colorectal Polyps
by Alla Synytsya, Zuzana Kováčová, Daniela Janstová, Michal Vočka, Jaromír Petrtýl and Luboš Petruželka
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(2), 791; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14020791 - 17 Jan 2024
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Portable Raman spectrometers may offer advantages for clinical medical diagnostics over laboratory instruments by allowing for quick measurements in the field and provision of data suitable for screening analyses. This work evaluates the potential of using available handheld, modular, and laboratory Raman spectrometers [...] Read more.
Portable Raman spectrometers may offer advantages for clinical medical diagnostics over laboratory instruments by allowing for quick measurements in the field and provision of data suitable for screening analyses. This work evaluates the potential of using available handheld, modular, and laboratory Raman spectrometers for screening normal colon tissues and benign and malignant colon polyps. The Raman spectra of tissue samples and reference biological macromolecules were measured with these instruments and analyzed using curve fitting and multivariate statistics. The spectra of calf thymus DNA measured with portable devices showed suitable signal-to-noise levels and half-widths of the prominent bands. Band positions, resolution, and relative intensities in the Raman spectra of colon tissues and reference compounds varied for the instruments, and the laboratory device demonstrated the best spectral feature. The principal component analysis (PCA) of the spectra obtained with all Raman devices showed well discrimination of normal colon tissue, adenomatous polyp, and adenocarcinoma. Dendrograms of similarity obtained using hierarchy cluster analysis (HCA) for the Raman spectra of all three devices also showed good separation of these samples. The soft independent modeling of class analogy (SIMCA) and support vector machine (SVM) models efficiently classified normal colon tissues and benign/malignant colorectal polyps based on the Raman data from all three devices. Despite its less pronounced spectral characteristics, the handheld Raman spectrometer can be used in early diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma, comparable to the modular and laboratory instruments. Full article
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A Novel Distributed Optical Fiber Temperature Sensor Based on Raman anti-Stokes Scattering Light
by Lidong Lu, Yishan Wang, Ce Liang, Jiaming Fan, Xingchen Su and Minnan Huang
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(20), 11214; https://doi.org/10.3390/app132011214 - 12 Oct 2023
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In this paper, a novel distributed optical fiber temperature sensor based on Raman anti-Stokes scattering light is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The Raman anti-Stokes scattering light is sensitive to temperature parameters that are detected by the fiber under test conditions (FUT), and this [...] Read more.
In this paper, a novel distributed optical fiber temperature sensor based on Raman anti-Stokes scattering light is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The Raman anti-Stokes scattering light is sensitive to temperature parameters that are detected by the fiber under test conditions (FUT), and this allowed the temperature demodulation algorithm to be obtained through the relationship between the temperature and the power of the back-scattered Raman anti-Stokes light. In addition, we propose a new temperature calibration method to ensure accurate temperature measurement, which is greatly affected by the stability of a pulse laser. The experimental system is constructed with an optical fiber length of approximately 3.5 km. The proposed system obtains a 24 dB dynamic range with a pulse width of 20 ns and temperature testing ranges of 30.0 °C to 80.0 °C. The results demonstrate that the maximum temperature deviation range is −1.5 °C to +1.6 °C and the root mean square (RMS) error of the whole temperature range is 0.3 °C, which means it has the potential for practical engineering applications. More importantly, it avoids the walk-off effect that must be corrected in commonly used temperature demodulation schemes adopting both Raman Stokes light and anti-Stokes light. It also saves a signal channel, which is more suitable for the integration of hybrid distributed optical fiber sensing systems for multi-parameter monitoring. Full article
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