Single-shot stereo-polarimetric compressed ultrafast photography for light-speed observation of high-dimensional optical transients with picosecond resolution
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California Institute of Technology
Abstract
Simultaneous and efficient ultrafast recording of multiple photon tags contributes to high-dimensional optical imaging and characterization in numerous fields. Existing high-dimensional optical imaging techniques that record space and polarization cannot detect the photon's time of arrival owing to the limited speeds of the state-of-the-art electronic sensors. Here, we overcome this long-standing limitation by implementing stereo-polarimetric compressed ultrafast photography (SP-CUP) to record light-speed high-dimensional events in a single exposure. Synergizing compressed sensing and streak imaging with stereoscopy and polarimetry, SP-CUP enables video-recording of five photon tags (x, y, z: space; t: time of arrival; and ψ: angle of linear polarization) at 100 billion frames per second with a picosecond temporal resolution. We applied SP-CUP to the spatiotemporal characterization of linear polarization dynamics in early-stage plasma emission from laser-induced breakdown. This system also allowed three-dimensional ultrafast imaging of the linear polarization properties of a single ultrashort laser pulse propagating in a scattering medium.
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© The Author(s) 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Received 19 March 2020; Accepted 16 September 2020; Published 16 October 2020. The authors thank Dr. Chiye Li and Dr. Pengfei Hai for experimental assistance, and Professor Liang Gao from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for fruitful discussion. This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants DP1 EB016986 (NIH Director's Pioneer Award) and R01 CA186567 (NIH Director's Transformative Research Award). Data availability: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. Code availability: The reconstruction algorithm is described in detail in Methods and Supplementary Information. We have opted not to make the computer code publicly available because the code is proprietary and used for other projects. Author Contributions: J.L. proposed the high-dimensional CUP imaging and designed the SP-CUP system. J.L. and P.W. built the system. P.W. and J.L. performed the experiments. P.W., L.Z., and J.L. developed the SP-CUP's image reconstruction algorithm. J.L., P.W., and L.Z. analyzed the experimental data and drafted the manuscript. L.V.W. conceived compressed-sensing-aided multi-view projection and supervised the project. All authors revised the manuscript. Competing interests: The authors disclose the following patent applications: WO2016085571 A3 (L.V.W. and J.L.), US Provisional 62/298,552 (L.V.W., J.L., and L.Z.), and US Provisional 62/813,974 (L.V.W., P.W., J.L., and L.Z.). Peer review information: Nature Communications thanks Pavel Polynkin, Tessa Curtis and the other anonymous reviewer for their contribution to the peer review of this work. Peer reviewer reports are available.Attached Files
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- DP1 EB016986
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- R01 CA186567
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