High-spatial-resolution ultrafast framing imaging at 15 trillion frames per second by optical parametric amplification

Xuanke Zeng; Shuiqin Zheng; Yi Cai; Qinggang Lin; Jinyang Liang; Xiaowei Lu; Jingzhen Li; Weixin Xie; Shixiang Xu

doi:10.1117/1.AP.2.5.056002

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 2, Issue 5, 056002(2020)

High-spatial-resolution ultrafast framing imaging at 15 trillion frames per second by optical parametric amplification

Xuanke Zeng^1,2, Shuiqin Zheng¹, Yi Cai¹, Qinggang Lin¹, Jinyang Liang³, Xiaowei Lu¹, Jingzhen Li¹, Weixin Xie², and Shixiang Xu^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹Shenzhen University, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen Key Lab of Micro-Nano Photonic Information Technology, Shenzhen, China

²Shenzhen University, College of Electronic Information Engineering, Shenzhen, China

³Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Laboratory of Applied Computational Imaging, Varennes, Québec, Canada

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: May. 4, 2020

Accepted: Aug. 24, 2020

Published Online: Sep. 21, 2020

The Author Email: Xu Shixiang (shxxu@szu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.2.5.056002

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