Single-shot spatial-temporal-spectral complex amplitude imaging via wavelength-time multiplexing

Yingming Xu; Chengzhi Jin; Liangze Pan; Yu He; Yunhua Yao; Dalong Qi; Cheng Liu; Junhui Shi; Zhenrong Sun; Shian Zhang; Jianqiang Zhu

doi:10.1117/1.AP.7.2.026004

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 7, Issue 2, 026004(2025)

Single-shot spatial-temporal-spectral complex amplitude imaging via wavelength-time multiplexing

Yingming Xu^1,2、†, Chengzhi Jin^3,4, Liangze Pan⁵, Yu He³, Yunhua Yao³, Dalong Qi^3、*, Cheng Liu^2、*, Junhui Shi^1、*, Zhenrong Sun³, Shian Zhang³, and Jianqiang Zhu²

Author Affiliations

¹Research Center for Novel Computational Sensing and Intelligent Processing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, China

²Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Key Laboratory of High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai, China

³East China Normal University, School of Physics and Electronic Science, State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Shanghai, China

⁴South-Central Minzu University, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Wuhan, China

⁵China Jiliang University, College of Optical and Electronic Technology, Hangzhou, China

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