High Throughput Imaging Technology

This book highlights a comprehensive introduction to high-throughput imaging, with the focus on the principles and methods. High-throughput imaging has become a research trend in the field of optics. It combines fast imaging, super-resolution imaging and large field of view imaging, improving the performance of the imaging system in many aspects. The development of a fast and high-throughput imaging system requires integration of optics, mathematics, programming, and other related science and technology. They bridge the theory and the system and realize the software-hardware integration, finally achieving high-performance imaging. An effective evaluation criterion of high-throughput imaging is the spatio-temporal bandwidth product, which provides guidance for research. The imaging technology with better comprehensive performance is the key target of research. Nowadays, new super-resolution imaging technologies and high-throughput imaging technologies have been emerging one after another, together with a number of new technical indicators. However, the integration and cascade of various technologies is still a very difficult challenge, and different technologies are difficult to be used in combination because of differences in physical space and technical means. Creating an imaging system with fast and high-throughput imaging capability is an urgent research task, which has important economic and social benefits for practical applications such as observing the dynamic (transient) process of large-size targets and on-line detection. High-throughput imaging is one of the major research goals of global research teams in optical imaging. This book summarizes latest research advances and introduces a variety of imaging methods targeting key problems, bringing together new theories and technologies in the aspects of high resolution, large field of view and fast imaging. The book provides a handy reference and systematic handbook for graduate students, researchers, and technicians engaged in the study, research and work in optical imaging.

Liu Zhengjun is a professor/doctoral supervisor, School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology. He received his Doctor of Science degree from the Physics Department of Harbin Institute of Technology in July 2007, and began to work in the School of Electrical Engineering of Harbin Institute of Technology in August 2007. He began to work in the School of Physics of Harbin Institute of Technology in October 2021.

He is a standing member of the holographic Special Committee of the Optical Society, a senior member of the American Optical Society (OPTICA), a member of the Chinese Optical Engineering Society, a member of the IEEE, and the editorial board of journals of Applied Sciences and Optics Express, and the Young editorial board of journal of Infrared and Laser Engineering, Applied Optics and Optical Technology. His research interests include computational optical imaging, and information/image processing. He published more than 200 peer reviewed journal papers, cited more than 4000 times, and the H factor is 38.

He was selected as Elsevier highly cited scholar in Physics, Ministry of Education New Century Talent Program, Harbin Institute of Technology Young Top Talent Program, Harbin Institute of Technology Basic Research Outstanding Talent Training Program. He was nominated for national excellent doctoral thesis and the excellent doctoral thesis of Harbin Institute of Technology. He presided 22 scientific research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, won two awards of Heilongjiang Science and Technology (second prize in the natural category), and Jin Guofan Young Student Award. He published also two monographs and a textbook.

Li Yutong is an assistant researcher, School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology. She received her Doctor of Science degree from the Physics Department of Harbin Institute of Technology in June 2023, and began to work in the School of Physics of Harbin Institute of Technology in December 2023.

She presided the project of National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2024. She is a young editor of PhotoniX Life, a guest editor of the special issue of Cryptography, a member of the organizing committee of the Sino-Russian Physics Seminar for Young Scientists. Her current research interests include optical image processing, computational imaging, super-resolution imaging, optical information security, and diffraction imaging. She published 17 peer-reviewed journal articles in the field of optics, in the journals of Applied Physics Letters, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, etc., and 1 book chapter. The paper titled as “Single-frame two-color illumination computational imaging based on Kramers-Kronig relations” was selected as an Editor's Pick by the journal of Applied Physics Letters.