Real time micro/nano particle detection and tracking with nanosecond resolution
Proceedings of SPIE(2009)
摘要
Real-time optical imaging and tracking of particles in a complex environment to understand
coordinated events has attracted researchers from various areas such as biomechanics. Here, we report a
way for real time detection and tracking of micron size particles in time-space-wavelength mapping
technology by using a single detector. Experimentally, we demonstrate real time tracking of micron size
glass particles with 50ns temporal resolution and <3μm spatial resolution. Submicron resolution and faster
temporal resolution are achievable with further optimization. The proposed technique utilizes the timewavelength
technology, which has been proven to be very effective in real time digitization of ultra fast RF
signals, and arbitrary waveform generation by random objects. In this work we use a broad band continuum
source generated by a 20MHz fiber laser to emit 50nm short pulses at 1550nm. Following a dispersive time
wavelength mapping in a chirped fiber grating and space-time-wavelength mapping through a diffraction
grating with 600lines/mm, we generate an elliptical beam where each wavelength component corresponds
to different time and position in space. Then the generated beam is focused on an image plane by using
20X-40X microscope objectives. The presence of particles on the image plane induces amplitude
modulation on each pulse which is captured in real time by a high speed digitizing oscilloscope with
20GS/s sampling rate. The trajectory of the particle is extracted from the dynamic amplitude modulation in
a post processing. The same system has also been utilized for imaging of particles by using one
dimensional scanning.
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optical imaging,nanoparticles,spatial resolution,temporal resolution,fiber laser,real time,particles,amplitude modulation,oscilloscopes,fiber lasers,sensors,arbitrary waveform generator,diffraction gratings,diffraction grating,microscopes,space time
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