A unified framework for photonic time‐stretch systems

Y Zhou, JCK Chan, B Jalali - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photonic time stretch is the key enabling technology for a wide variety of instruments with
unparalleled single‐shot data acquisition performance at high throughput and continuous …

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 …

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 …

Principle and Recent Development in Photonic Time-Stretch Imaging

G Wang, Y Zhou, R Min, E Du, C Wang - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Inspiring development in optical imaging enables great applications in the science and
engineering industry, especially in the medical imaging area. Photonic time-stretch imaging …

Pure temporal dispersion for aberration free ultrafast time-stretch applications

L Chen, X Dong, N Yang, L Zhang, Z Lei… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Photonic time-stretch applications overcome the speed limitations of conventional digitizers
and enable the observation of nonrepetitive and statistically rare phenomena that occur on …

Improved resolution optical time stretch imaging based on high efficiency in-fiber diffraction

G Wang, Z Yan, L Yang, L Zhang, C Wang - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Most overlooked challenges in ultrafast optical time stretch imaging (OTSI) are sacrificed
spatial resolution and higher optical loss. These challenges are originated from optical …

Optical time stretch for high-speed and high-throughput imaging—from single-cell to tissue-wide scales

AKS Lau, AHL Tang, J Xu, X Wei… - IEEE Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Initially developed for high-speed optical communication, optical time stretch has recently
been adopted for ultrafast and sensitive optical imaging at an unprecedented speed. In this …

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 …

Signal reconstruction by phase retrieval and optical backpropagation in phase-diverse photonic time-stretch systems

J Stigwall, S Galt - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The signal-to-noise ratio and bandwidth of photonic time-stretch (PTS) systems have
previously been limited due to the nonlinear distortion caused by modulator response 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 …