Title :
Photonic time-stretch: From world´s fastest digitizer to the world´s fastest camera
Author :
Jalali, Bahram ; Goda, Keisuke
Author_Institution :
Electr. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We review the progress in time-stretched ADC technology and how this quintessential microwave photonic technology has spun off into ultrafast imaging that is being used for early detection of cancer.
Keywords :
analogue-digital conversion; biomedical optical imaging; cancer; high-speed optical techniques; microwave photonics; optical frequency conversion; cancer detection; digitizer; fastest camera; photonic time-stretch; quintessential microwave photonic technology; time-stretched ADC technology; ultrafast imaging; Optical fibers; Optical imaging; Optical pulses; Optical reflection; Real time systems; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Photonics (MWP), 2010 IEEE Topical Meeting on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7824-8
DOI :
10.1109/MWP.2010.5664147
