Abstract

Optical time-stretch imaging has shown potential in diverse fields for its capability of acquiring images at high speed and high resolution. However, its wide application is hindered by the stringent requirement on the instrumentation hardware caused by the high-speed serial data stream. Here we demonstrate temporally interleaved optical time-stretch imaging that lowers the requirement without sacrificing the frame rate or spatial resolution by interleaving the high-speed data stream into multiple channels in the time domain. Its performance is validated with both a United States Air Force (USAF)-1951 resolution chart and a single-crystal diamond film. We achieve a 101 Mfps 1D scanning rate and 3 µm spatial resolution with only a 2.5 GS/s sampling rate by using a two-channel-interleaved system.

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