Ultrafast laser-scanning time-stretch imaging at visible wavelengths

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Wu, Jiang Lai ^a   Xu, Yi Qing ^a   Xu, Jing Jiang ^b   Wei, Xiao Ming ^a   Chan, Antony CS ^a   Tang, Anson HL ^a   Lau, Andy KS ^a   Chung, Bob MF ^a   Shum, Ho Cheung ^a   Lam, Edmund Y ^a   Wong, Kenneth KY ^a   Tsia, Kevin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical time stretch imaging; Pulse stretching; Ultrafast laser scanning

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; SCANNING; SURFACE ANALYSIS; THROUGHPUT; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

BIOLOGICAL MICROSCOPY; BRIGHT-FIELD IMAGES; CONTINUOUS CAPTURES; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; PULSE STRETCHING; SCOPE OF APPLICATION; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TIME STRETCH;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 85039070736     PISSN: 20955545     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2016.196     Document Type: Article

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