Ultrafast laser-scanning time-stretch imaging at visible wavelengths

JL Wu, YQ Xu, JJ Xu, XM Wei, A Chan… - Light: Science & …, 2017 - nature.com
Optical time-stretch imaging enables the continuous capture of non-repetitive events in real
time at a line-scan rate of tens of MHz—a distinct advantage for the ultrafast dynamics …

Optical time-stretch imaging: Principles and applications

C Lei, B Guo, Z Cheng, K Goda - Applied Physics Reviews, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Breathtaking innovations in optical imaging have opened new exciting avenues for science,
industry, and medicine over the last few decades. One of such innovations is optical time …

Optical time-stretch confocal microscopy at 1 μm

TTW Wong, AKS Lau, KKY Wong, KK Tsia - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate optical time-stretch confocal microscopy in the 1 μm spectral window for
high-speed and high-resolution cellular imaging. In contrast to the prior demonstrations of …

Solid-state ultrafast all-optical streak camera enabling high-dynamic-range picosecond recording

CH Sarantos, JE Heebner - Optics letters, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an ultrafast optical recording system based on a novel optical beam
deflection technique. An optical pump temporarily creates an array of prisms that deflect an …

Ultrafast optical imaging technology: principles and applications of emerging methods

H Mikami, L Gao, K Goda - Nanophotonics, 2016 - degruyter.com
High-speed optical imaging is an indispensable technology for blur-free observation of fast
transient dynamics in virtually all areas including science, industry, defense, energy, and …

Time stretch and its applications

A Mahjoubfar, DV Churkin, S Barland, N Broderick… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Observing non-repetitive and statistically rare signals that occur on short timescales requires
fast real-time measurements that exceed the speed, precision and record length of …

Photonic time‐stretch digitizer and its extension to real‐time spectroscopy and imaging

AM Fard, S Gupta, B Jalali - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Real‐time wideband digitizers are the key building block in many systems including
oscilloscopes, signal intelligence, electronic warfare, and medical diagnostics systems …

Single-shot ultrafast imaging attaining 70 trillion frames per second

P Wang, J Liang, LV Wang - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Real-time imaging of countless femtosecond dynamics requires extreme speeds orders of
magnitude beyond the limits of electronic sensors. Existing femtosecond imaging modalities …

Interferometric time-stretch microscopy for ultrafast quantitative cellular and tissue imaging at 1 μm

AKS Lau, TTW Wong, KKY Ho… - … of biomedical optics, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) has been proven to be a powerful tool for label-free
characterization of biological specimens. However, the imaging speed, largely limited by the …

Spatially encoded, single-shot ultrafast spectroscopies

JT Fourkas, L Dhar, KA Nelson, R Trebino - JOSA B, 1995 - opg.optica.org
We analyze the time-resolution constraints for two single-shot, time-resolved femtosecond
spectroscopic techniques, an excite—probe method, and a transient-grating method. For …