• DocumentCode
    1770506
  • Title

    Serial time-encoded amplified microscopy (STEAM) by fully incoherent noise

  • Author

    Chi Zhang ; Xu, Y.Q. ; Xiaoming Wei ; Tsia, Kevin K. ; Wong, Kenneth K. Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    By introducing a time-lens in the serial time-encoded amplified microscopy (STEAM), its input temporal aperture is greatly enlarged. Therefore, the light source with arbitrary waveform can be applied, especially the amplified spontaneous emission noise.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; light sources; optical microscopy; optical noise; spontaneous emission; amplified spontaneous emission noise; arbitrary waveform; fully incoherent noise; input temporal aperture; light source; serial time-encoded amplified microscopy; time-lens; Dispersion; Image resolution; Microscopy; Noise; Optical imaging; Wideband;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988955