Title :
Ultra-fast line scan microscopic imaging system
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
The speed of line scan imaging system is limited either by scanning technique or the frame rate of CCD and CMOS cameras. By using hybrid dispersion laser scanning technique, we built an ultra-fast line scan microscopic imaging system with record frame rate of 1GHz. This technique is promising to be used for capturing fast process, especially non-repetitive transient phenomena.
Keywords :
CCD image sensors; CMOS image sensors; optical microscopy; optical scanners; CCD cameras; CMOS cameras; frame rate; frequency 1 GHz; hybrid dispersion laser scanning technique; line scan imaging system; nonrepetitive transient phenomena; ultrafast line scan microscopic imaging system; Dispersion; Image resolution; Microscopy; Optical imaging; Optical microscopy; Optical pulses; Microscopic imaging; line scanning imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2013 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
DOI :
10.1109/ICOCN.2013.6617222