Photonics Research, Volume. 10, Issue 8, 1900(2022)

Imaging ultrafast evolution of subwavelength-sized topography using single-probe structured light microscopy

Jie Xu1, Changjun Min1,3、*, Yuquan Zhang1,4、*, Jielei Ni1, Gengwei Cao1, Qianyi Wei1, Jianjun Yang2, and Xiaocong Yuan1,5、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Nanophotonics Research Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Technology & Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
  • 3e-mail: cjmin@szu.edu.cn
  • 4e-mail: yqzhang@szu.edu.cn
  • 5e-mail: xcyuan@szu.edu.cn
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    Jie Xu, Changjun Min, Yuquan Zhang, Jielei Ni, Gengwei Cao, Qianyi Wei, Jianjun Yang, Xiaocong Yuan. Imaging ultrafast evolution of subwavelength-sized topography using single-probe structured light microscopy[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(8): 1900

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    Category: Imaging Systems, Microscopy, and Displays

    Received: Mar. 17, 2022

    Accepted: Jun. 21, 2022

    Published Online: Jul. 27, 2022

    The Author Email: Changjun Min (cjmin@szu.edu.cn), Yuquan Zhang (yqzhang@szu.edu.cn), Xiaocong Yuan (xcyuan@szu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.458613

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