Ultrafast Optical Imaging

Dear Colleagues,

Optical imaging is an indispensable tool in understanding our world and enabling technological advancement. However, conventional imaging systems have their imaging speeds limited by the frame rate of the semiconductor sensors. In recent years, we have seen a remarkable boom in the development of ultrafast optical imaging techniques, from basic hardware components and algorithm innovation to novel system-level designs. These techniques find exciting applications in a vast range of fields, from physics, material science, and life science to an industrial deployment. In addition, people are constantly pushing the boundaries of ultrafast imaging, including a higher imaging speed, new functionalities, smaller systems, and smarter algorithms.

This Special Issue aims to cover recent progress in ultrafast optical imaging technology. We encourage submission of original research articles that develop new methods, systems, and algorithms in ultrafast optical imaging and apply ultrafast optical imaging to observe and study fast dynamics in different fields.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

1. Novel ultrafast optical imaging theory and system design;
2. Computational ultrafast imaging: compressed sensing, machine learning, etc;
3. Ultrafast multi-dimensional and multi-contrast imaging: spectral, polarimetric, stereoscopic, light field, phase-sensitive, quantitative-phase, etc;
4. Inverse algorithms for the reconstruction of ultrafast dynamics;
5. Ultra-high-speed photon detectors and cameras: streak cameras, framing cameras, SPADs, PMTs, etc;
6. Ultrafast phenomena and processes: physical, chemical, biological, biomedical, etc;
7. Ultra-short and ultra-intense light pulses: generation, manipulation, and characterization;
8. Ultrafast spectroscopy, snapshot spectroscopy, computational spectroscopy, and THz spectroscopy;
9. Pump-probe imaging and TCSPC;
10. Time-of-flight imaging and LiDAR;
11. Ultrafast bioimaging: fluorescence imaging, fluorescence lifetime imaging, cytometry, etc;
12. Attosecond pulse and attosecond imaging.

Dr. Peng Wang
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• optical imaging
• computational imaging
• ultrafast optics and nonlinear optics
• image reconstruction
• multi-dimensional imaging
• ultrafast phenomena
• biomedical imaging
• imaging sensors