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CN110873956B CN201810994801.2A CN201810994801A CN110873956B CN 110873956 B CN110873956 B CN 110873956B CN 201810994801 A CN201810994801 A CN 201810994801A CN 110873956 B CN110873956 B CN 110873956B
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本发明公开了一种超高速正交偏振成像装置及方法,该成像方法过程如下:飞秒激光经滤波、色散、增益与正交偏振复用后一分二成正交信号光与参考光,且正交偏振方向沿着保偏光纤快慢轴;信号光先经衍射空间散开,后进入空间光成像系统,携带样品信息后沿光路返回;加载样品信息的信号光与参考光一起接入光学相干接收机完成光学相干探测,并由光信号转换为电信号,再经高速模数转换对电信号高速采样转化为数字信号输出,最后由计算机解调复原图像。本发明与传统CCD成像传感器相比,在保证微米级成像分辨率的情况下,能以超高的百MHz帧率获取样品的偏振信息,而且基于光学相干接收机的全数字采集有利于后期实时分析以及图像优化处理。

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The invention discloses an ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device and method. The process of the imaging method is as follows: after filtering, dispersion, gain and orthogonal polarization multiplexing, a femtosecond laser is divided into two orthogonal signal light and reference light; And the orthogonal polarization direction is along the fast and slow axis of the polarization maintaining fiber; the signal light is first dispersed in the diffraction space, and then enters the space optical imaging system, carries the sample information and then returns along the optical path; the signal light loaded with the sample information is connected to the optics together with the reference light The coherent receiver completes the optical coherent detection, and converts the optical signal into an electrical signal, and then converts the electrical signal into a digital signal output by high-speed analog-to-digital conversion, and finally demodulates the image by a computer. Compared with the traditional CCD imaging sensor, the invention can obtain the polarization information of the sample at an ultra-high 100 MHz frame rate under the condition of ensuring the micron-level imaging resolution, and the full digital acquisition based on the optical coherent receiver is beneficial to the real-time later stage. Analysis and image optimization processing.

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Ultrahigh-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device and method
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of polarization microscopic imaging, particularly relates to an ultrafast polarization imaging technology, and more particularly relates to a femtosecond laser ultrahigh-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device and method based on optical coherent detection.
Background
Polarized light imaging is a very important imaging technique in the field of optical imaging, and can provide multidimensional information of intensity, phase and polarization. Particularly in the field of biomedical imaging, the polarized light imaging technology has the advantages of no need of invasion, low damage to samples and sensitivity to sub-wavelength structural change. The change of the polarization state of the light is closely related to the microstructure of the sample, so that the measurement of the polarization state of the light can obtain abundant structural information of the tissue sample. In addition to imaging static tissue structures, polarization imaging techniques are widely used for microscopic dynamic biomedical research. In order to better understand the real-time microscopic polarization-sensitive dynamic change process and realize the large-capacity tissue and even cell polarization research, it is necessary to improve the time resolution of the polarized light imaging technology.
Today's polarized light imaging technology has a slow image acquisition speed, wherein CCD and CMOS image sensors are the most widely used technologies in polarized light imaging systems today. In daily life, both imagers will typically only have a frame rate of 30 HZ. Although in the laboratory, a frame rate of several tens of KHZ can be obtained by reducing the number of pixels, the imaging quality is inevitably lowered. The pixel sensitivity and refresh frequency of such imagers are significantly limited with respect to each other. To ensure that the image is clearer, the corresponding picture refreshing frequency must be lower; conversely, if the refresh frequency of a picture is higher, the picture will be less sharp. This mutual limitation between sensitivity and frame rate also affects almost all polarized light imaging systems.
Therefore, an ultrafast polarized light imaging technology is urgently needed to be found to meet the requirements of experimental analysis work or actual production of modern polarized imaging.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problem of imaging speed in the prior art, and provides a femtosecond laser ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization microscopic imaging device and method based on optical coherent detection, which can greatly improve the imaging speed on the premise of ensuring micron-scale imaging resolution and can also acquire the polarization information of a sample.
The first purpose of the invention can be achieved by adopting the following technical scheme:
an ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device comprises a femtosecond laser 1, a filter 2, a dispersion optical fiber 3, an optical fiber amplifier 4, a polarization controller 5, an optical fiber polarizer 6, a first polarization-preserving coupler 7, a specified-length polarization-preserving optical fiber 8, a polarization beam combiner 9, a second polarization-preserving coupler 10, a circulator 11, a laser collimating lens 12, lambda/4 space waves/13, a diffraction grating 14, a first microscope objective lens 15, a second microscope objective lens 16, a sample 17, a plane mirror 18, an optical fiber delay line 19, an optical coherent receiver 20, a high-speed analog-to-digital conversion module 21 and a computer 22, wherein lambda is the central wavelength of femtosecond laser.
The femtosecond laser 1, the filter 2, the dispersion optical fiber 3, the optical fiber amplifier 4, the polarization controller 5 and the optical fiber polarizer 6 are connected in turn through a single-mode optical fiber; the optical fiber polarizer 6 is connected with the first polarization maintaining coupler 7 through a polarization maintaining optical fiber, the first polarization maintaining coupler 7 comprises two output branches, one branch is directly connected with one branch of the polarization beam combiner 9 through the polarization maintaining optical fiber, the other branch is connected with the other branch of the polarization beam combiner 9 through a section of polarization maintaining optical fiber 8 with a specified length, the output of the polarization beam combiner 9 is connected with the second polarization maintaining coupler 10 through the polarization maintaining optical fiber, and the second polarization maintaining coupler 10 divides the optical path into a signal optical path and a reference optical path; the signal light path is firstly connected with the circulator 11, then, the output port of the circulator 11 is connected with the laser collimating lens 12 through the polarization maintaining optical fiber, the light in the optical fiber is converted into space light, the space light path is sequentially provided with the lambda/4 space wave plate 13, the diffraction grating 14, the first microscope objective 15, the second microscope objective 16, the sample 17 and the plane mirror 18, the signal light loaded with sample information is finally reflected back to the circulator 11 through the space light path, and is guided into the signal light input port of the optical coherent receiver 20 through the polarization maintaining optical fiber by the circulator 11; the reference optical path output by the second polarization-maintaining coupler 10 is first connected to the optical fiber delay line 19, and then is connected to the reference optical input port of the optical coherent receiver 20 through the polarization-maintaining optical fiber; finally, the optical coherent receiver 20 performs coherent detection on the orthogonally polarized light, obtains polarization and phase information of two orthogonal directions of the sample 17 at the same time, converts an optical signal into an electrical signal, samples the electrical signal at a high speed by the high-speed analog-to-digital conversion module 21 and converts the electrical signal into a digital signal for output, and finally demodulates and restores the image by the computer 22.
Further, the laser collimating lens 12, the λ/4 space wave plate 13, the diffraction grating 14, the first micro-objective lens 15, the second micro-objective lens 16 and the plane mirror 18 are space optical devices made of quartz glass.
Further, the femtosecond laser 1 has a center wavelength in the C band, a pulse repetition frequency of 100MHz, and a pulse duration of several hundred femtoseconds.
Further, the dispersion amount of the dispersion fiber 3 is equivalent to 20km of single-mode fiber, and the pulse is widened to nanosecond level.
Further, the diffraction grating 14 is a 600 lines per millimeter grating, which is a polarization insensitive optical element.
Furthermore, the specified length of the polarization-maintaining fiber 8 is used for delaying the pulse, and the length thereof is required to enable the total length of the upper branch fiber connected with the first polarization-maintaining coupler 7 and the polarization beam combiner 9 to be longer than the lower branch by L meters, wherein the length L is v/(2f), where v is the propagation speed of light in the fiber, and f is the repetition frequency of the output laser of the femtosecond laser 1.
The second purpose of the invention can be achieved by adopting the following technical scheme:
an ultra-high speed orthogonal polarization imaging method, said imaging method comprising:
s1, a femtosecond laser preprocessing step, wherein the femtosecond laser 1 generates broadband pulse light, the filter 2 filters the laser emitted by the femtosecond laser 1, the central wavelength of 1550nm and the appropriate spectral width are selected, the dispersion optical fiber 3 widens the filtered laser in the time domain through the group velocity dispersion effect, and the optical fiber amplifier 4 amplifies the power of the dispersed filtered laser;
s2, an orthogonal double-polarization generating step, namely, the preprocessed laser pulse is combined by a polarization controller 5 and an optical fiber polarizer 6 to ensure the linear polarization state of the pulse, then the linear polarization pulse is divided into two parts by a first polarization-preserving coupler 7, the pulse on the upper arm is divided by a section of polarization-preserving fiber 8 with a specified length for delaying to ensure that the pulses on the upper arm and the lower arm are not overlapped after being combined, the linear polarization pulses on the two arms are combined by a polarization beam combiner 9, the combined pulse is two orthogonal polarization pulses along the fast and slow axes of the polarization-preserving fiber, and then the combined pulse is divided into two parts by a second polarization-preserving coupler 10 to be signal light and reference light;
s3, a signal light information loading step, wherein the signal light is firstly guided into a space light imaging system through a circulator 11 and a laser collimating lens 12, then the signal light is converted into parallel space light through the laser collimating lens 12, a lambda/4 space wave plate 13 and a diffraction grating 14 in sequence, then the parallel space light is dispersed in space, then the sample information loading is completed by focusing the parallel space light on a sample 17 through a first microscope objective 15 and a second microscope objective 16, and finally the information carrying two orthogonal polarization directions of the sample 17 is reflected back to an optical fiber loop through a plane mirror 18; the reference light branch enters an optical coherent receiver 20 after passing through an optical fiber delay line 19;
s4, optical coherent detection and image restoration, wherein the signal light loaded with sample information and the reference light are connected into the optical coherent receiver 20, the optical coherent receiver 20 performs coherent detection on the orthogonal polarized light, obtains the polarization and phase information of the two orthogonal directions of the sample, converts the optical signal into an electric signal, samples the electric signal at high speed by the high-speed analog-to-digital conversion module 21 and converts the electric signal into a digital signal for output, and finally, the computer 22 demodulates and restores the image.
Compared with two image controllers of CCD and CMOS which are widely applied in daily life, the invention has the following advantages and effects:
1) under the frame rate of a great hundred MHz magnitude, the resolution of an imaged picture can still be ensured to be in a micron magnitude, and the device can also be used for observing near real-time polarization sensitive microscopic change;
2) the invention can obtain the full digital information about the shot sample, and is very beneficial to analyzing the digital information in real time according to the sample and carrying out various optimization treatments on the recovered image.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device disclosed by the invention,
the drawings illustrate the following: 1- - -a femtosecond laser, 2- - -a filter, 3- - -a dispersion optical fiber, 4- - -an optical fiber amplifier, 5- - -a polarization controller, 6- - -an optical fiber polarizer, 7- - -a polarization maintaining coupler, 8- - -a polarization maintaining optical fiber with a specified length, 9- - -a polarization beam combiner, 10- - -a polarization maintaining coupler, 11- - -a circulator, 12- - -a laser collimating lens, 13- - -a lambda/4 space wave plate, 14- - -a diffraction grating, 15- - -a first micro objective lens, 16- - -a second micro objective lens, 17- - -a sample, 18- - -a plane reflector, 19- - -an optical coherent receiver, 20-optical fiber delay line, 21-high speed analog-to-digital conversion module, 22-computer.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
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The invention relates to a time domain broadening imaging technology based on dispersive Fourier transform, which is invented and widely researched as a high-speed microscopic imaging technology possibly applied to microscopic real-time observation.
In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, a femtosecond laser ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device based on optical coherent detection includes:
the device comprises a femtosecond laser 1, a filter 2, a dispersion optical fiber 3, an optical fiber amplifier 4, a polarization controller 5 and an optical fiber polarizer 6 which are connected in sequence through a single-mode optical fiber; the first polarization-maintaining coupler 7 is connected with the optical fiber polarizer 6 through a polarization-maintaining optical fiber, the first polarization-maintaining coupler 7 comprises two output branches, one branch is directly connected to one branch of the polarization beam combiner 9 through the polarization-maintaining optical fiber, the other branch is connected to the other branch of the polarization beam combiner 9 through a section of specified-length polarization-maintaining optical fiber 8, the output of the polarization beam combiner 9 is connected with the second polarization-maintaining coupler 10 through the polarization-maintaining optical fiber, and the second polarization-maintaining coupler 10 divides the optical path into a signal optical path and a reference optical path; the signal light path is firstly connected with a circulator 11, the output port of the circulator 11 is connected with a laser collimating lens 12 through a polarization maintaining optical fiber, the light in the optical fiber is converted into space light, a lambda/4 space wave plate 13, a diffraction grating 14, a first micro objective 15, a second micro objective 16, a sample 17 and a plane mirror 18 are sequentially arranged on the space light path, the signal light loaded with sample information is finally reflected back to the circulator 11 through the space light path, and is guided into a signal light input port of an optical coherent receiver 20 through the polarization maintaining optical fiber by the circulator 11; the reference optical path output by the second polarization maintaining coupler 10 is connected to the optical fiber delay line 19, and then is connected to the reference optical input port of the optical coherent receiver 20 through the polarization maintaining optical fiber; finally, the photoelectric optical signal output by the optical coherent receiver 20 is connected to the high-speed analog-to-digital conversion module 21, and the digital signal after analog-to-digital conversion is finally sent to the computer 22 through the ethernet or the USB.
The laser collimating lens 12, the lambda/4 space wave plate 13, the diffraction grating 14, the first micro objective lens 15, the second micro objective lens 16 and the plane mirror 18 are space optical devices made of quartz glass.
The femtosecond laser 1 has a center wavelength in the C band, a pulse repetition frequency of 100MHz, and a pulse duration of several hundred femtoseconds.
The dispersion amount of the dispersion fiber 3 is equivalent to 20km of single-mode fiber, and the pulse can be widened to nanosecond level.
The diffraction grating 14 is a 600 lines per millimeter grating, which is a polarization insensitive optical element.
The process of loading the sample information by light through the diffraction grating is that after one beam of parallel light is scattered by the diffraction grating, the light with different frequencies irradiates different positions on the sample to carry the information on different positions of the sample.
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In this embodiment, based on the disclosed femtosecond laser ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device based on optical coherent detection, an ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging method is disclosed, which includes the following steps:
s1, preprocessing the femtosecond laser, wherein the femtosecond laser 1 generates broadband pulse light, the filter 2 filters the laser emitted by the femtosecond laser 1, the central wavelength is 1550nm and the appropriate spectral width are selected, the dispersion optical fiber 3 widens the filtered laser in the time domain through the group velocity dispersion effect, and the optical fiber amplifier 4 amplifies the power of the filtered laser after dispersion.
S2, orthogonal double polarization generating, wherein the preprocessed laser pulse is combined by a polarization controller 5 and an optical fiber polarizer 6 to ensure the linear polarization state of the pulse, then the linear polarization pulse is divided into two parts by a first polarization-preserving coupler 7, the pulse on the upper arm is divided into two parts by a section of polarization-preserving fiber 8 with a specified length for delaying to ensure that the pulses on the upper arm and the lower arm are not overlapped after being combined, the linear polarization pulses on the two arms are combined by a polarization beam combiner 9, the combined pulse is just two orthogonal polarization pulses along the fast and slow axes of the polarization-preserving fiber, and then the combined pulse is divided into two parts by a second polarization-preserving coupler 10 to be signal light and reference light.
S3, a signal light information loading step, wherein the signal light is guided into a space light imaging system through a circulator 11 and a laser collimating lens 12, then the signal light is converted into parallel space light through the laser collimating lens 12, a lambda/4 space wave plate 13 and a diffraction grating 14 in sequence, then the parallel space light is dispersed in space, then the sample information loading is completed by focusing the parallel space light on a sample 17 through a first microscope objective 15 and a second microscope objective 16, and finally the information carrying two orthogonal polarization directions of the sample 17 is reflected back to an optical fiber loop through a plane mirror 18; and the reference light branch enters the optical coherent receiver after passing through the optical fiber delay line.
S4, optical coherent detection and image restoration, wherein the signal light loaded with sample information and the reference light are connected into the optical coherent receiver 20, the optical coherent receiver 20 performs coherent detection on the orthogonal polarized light, obtains the polarization and phase information of the two orthogonal directions of the sample, converts the optical signal into an electric signal, samples the electric signal at high speed by the high-speed analog-to-digital conversion module 21 and converts the electric signal into a digital signal for output, and finally, the computer demodulates and restores the original image.
Due to the combination of the device of ultra-high-speed imaging, the imaging method can obtain ultra-high hundred MHz imaging frame rate.
The high-speed analog-to-digital conversion module 21 may further calculate and solve a jones matrix and a mueller matrix distribution image of the sample based on polarization and phase information in the orthogonal direction of the sample, and may further calculate and solve polarization parameters such as dichroism, phase delay, scattering depolarization, and the like of the sample based on the mueller matrix.
More specifically, as shown in fig. 1, the femtosecond laser high-speed polarization microscopic imaging method based on optical coherent detection comprises four steps.
Firstly, the pretreatment step of femtosecond laser: the filter 2 filters the laser emitted from the femtosecond laser 1, and selects a center wavelength of 1550nm and a suitable spectral width. The dispersion optical fiber 3 and the optical fiber amplifier 4 complete proper gain dispersion on the filtered laser and widen the femtosecond pulse to nanosecond level.
Secondly, the generation step of orthogonal double polarization: the pre-treated laser pulse is passed through a combination of a polarization controller 5 and a fiber polarizer 6 to ensure the linear polarization state of the pulse. Then the linear polarization pulse is divided into two parts by a first polarization-maintaining coupler 7, the pulse of the upper arm is enabled not to be overlapped after the pulse of the upper arm and the pulse of the lower arm are combined by a section of polarization-maintaining fiber 8 with a specified length for delay, the linear polarization pulse of the two arms is combined by a polarization beam combiner 9, and the combined pulse is just two orthogonal polarization pulses along the fast and slow axes of the polarization-maintaining fiber. And then divided into signal light and reference light by the second polarization maintaining coupler 10.
The length of the specified length of polarization maintaining fiber 8 for delay is determined according to the period calculation of the femtosecond laser. The length of the polarization maintaining fiber 8 is specified to be such that the total length of the upper branch fiber connected with the polarization beam combiner 9 by the first polarization maintaining coupler 7 is longer than the lower branch by L meters, and the length L is equal to v/(2f), wherein v is the propagation speed of light in the fiber, and f is the repetition frequency of the output laser of the femtosecond laser.
Thirdly, loading information of the signal light: the signal light is guided into the space light imaging system through the circulator 11 and the laser collimating lens 12. The lambda/4 space wave plate 13 can ensure that the incident space light pulse light keeps the orthogonal linear polarization state. The diffraction grating 14 can sequentially spread the spatial light according to the wavelength, then focus on the sample 17 through the first microscope objective 15 and the second microscope objective 16, and finally reflect the signal light loaded with the sample information back to the optical fiber through the plane mirror 18.
Fourthly, optical coherent detection and image restoration steps: the signal light loaded with information returns to the optical fiber loop again through the circulator 11 and is accessed to the optical coherent receiver 20; the reference light split by the second polarization maintaining coupler 10 passes through the fiber delay line 19 and then is connected to the optical coherent receiver 20, so as to complete the optical path matching of the two paths of light and the optical detection of coherent information. The high-speed analog-to-digital sampling module 21 is used for collecting data, and then the computer 22 stores the collected coherent data and demodulates the coherent data by an algorithm to recover the polarization-related information image of the sample.
The above embodiments are preferred embodiments of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and any other changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications which do not depart from the spirit and principle of the present invention should be construed as equivalents thereof, and all such changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications are intended to be included in the scope of the present invention.

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1.一种超高速正交偏振成像装置,其特征在于,所述的成像装置包括飞秒激光器(1)、滤波器(2)、色散光纤(3)、光纤放大器(4)、偏振控制器(5)、光纤起偏器(6)、第一保偏耦合器(7)、指定长度保偏光纤(8)、偏振合束器(9)、第二保偏耦合器(10)、环形器(11)、激光准直透镜(12)、λ/4空间波片(13),衍射光栅(14)、第一显微物镜(15)、第二显微物镜(16)、样品(17)、平面反射镜(18)、光纤延迟线(19)、光学相干接收机(20)、高速模数转换模块(21)、计算机(22),其中λ为飞秒激光的中心波长;1. An ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device, characterized in that the imaging device comprises a femtosecond laser (1), a filter (2), a dispersive fiber (3), a fiber amplifier (4), a polarization controller (5), a fiber polarizer (6), a first polarization-maintaining coupler (7), a polarization-maintaining fiber of specified length (8), a polarization beam combiner (9), a second polarization-maintaining coupler (10), a ring device (11), laser collimating lens (12), λ/4 space wave plate (13), diffraction grating (14), first microscope objective (15), second microscope objective (16), sample (17) ), a plane mirror (18), an optical fiber delay line (19), an optical coherent receiver (20), a high-speed analog-to-digital conversion module (21), and a computer (22), where λ is the center wavelength of the femtosecond laser; 所述的飞秒激光器(1)、滤波器(2)、色散光纤(3)、光纤放大器(4)、偏振控制器(5)和光纤起偏器(6)依次通过单模光纤连接;所述的光纤起偏器(6)与第一保偏耦合器(7)通过保偏光纤连接,所述的第一保偏耦合器(7)包括两路输出分支,其中一分支通过保偏光纤直接连接到偏振合束器(9)的一个分支,其中另一分支经一段指定长度保偏光纤(8)连接到偏振合束器(9)的另一个分支,所述的偏振合束器(9)的输出通过保偏光纤连接第二保偏耦合器(10),所述的第二保偏耦合器(10)将光路一分二为信号光路和参考光路;其中,信号光路首先连接所述的环形器(11),然后,所述的环形器(11)的输出口通过保偏光纤连接激光准直透镜(12),将光纤中的光转为空间光,空间光路依次放置所述的λ/4空间波片(13)、衍射光栅(14)、第一显微物镜(15)和第二显微物镜(16)、样品(17)和平面反射镜(18),加载样品信息的信号光最终通过空间光路反射回所述的环形器(11),并由所述的环形器(11)通过保偏光纤导入所述的光学相干接收机(20)的信号光输入端口;所述的第二保偏耦合器(10)输出的参考光路先连接光纤延迟线(19),再通过保偏光纤接入所述的光学相干接收机(20)的参考光输入端口;最后所述的光学相干接收机(20)对正交偏振光进行相干探测,同时得到样品(17)的两个正交方向的偏振和相位信息,并将光信号转换为电信号,再经高速模数转换模块(21)对电信号高速采样转化为数字信号输出,最后由计算机(22)解调复原图像。The femtosecond laser (1), the filter (2), the dispersive fiber (3), the fiber amplifier (4), the polarization controller (5) and the fiber polarizer (6) are sequentially connected through a single-mode fiber; The optical fiber polarizer (6) and the first polarization-maintaining coupler (7) are connected through a polarization-maintaining fiber, and the first polarization-maintaining coupler (7) includes two output branches, one of which passes through the polarization-maintaining fiber Directly connected to one branch of the polarization beam combiner (9), wherein the other branch is connected to the other branch of the polarization beam combiner (9) through a specified length of polarization maintaining fiber (8), the polarization beam combiner ( The output of 9) is connected to the second polarization-maintaining coupler (10) through the polarization-maintaining fiber, and the second polarization-maintaining coupler (10) bisects the optical path into a signal optical path and a reference optical path; wherein, the signal optical path is first connected to the The circulator (11), and then, the output port of the circulator (11) is connected to the laser collimation lens (12) through a polarization maintaining fiber, and the light in the fiber is converted into space light, and the space light path is placed in sequence. λ/4 spatial wave plate (13), diffraction grating (14), first microscope objective (15) and second microscope objective (16), sample (17) and flat mirror (18), loading sample information The signal light is finally reflected back to the circulator (11) through the spatial optical path, and is introduced into the signal light input port of the optical coherent receiver (20) by the circulator (11) through the polarization-maintaining fiber; The reference optical path output by the second polarization-maintaining coupler (10) is first connected to the optical fiber delay line (19), and then connected to the reference optical input port of the optical coherent receiver (20) through the polarization-maintaining fiber; The optical coherent receiver (20) performs coherent detection on orthogonally polarized light, obtains polarization and phase information in two orthogonal directions of the sample (17) at the same time, converts the optical signal into an electrical signal, and then undergoes high-speed analog-to-digital conversion The module (21) converts the high-speed sampling of the electrical signal into a digital signal for output, and finally the computer (22) demodulates the restored image. 2.根据权利要求1所述的一种超高速正交偏振成像装置,其特征在于,所述的激光准直透镜(12)、λ/4空间波片(13)、衍射光栅(14)、第一显微物镜(15)、第二显微物镜(16)和平面反射镜(18)为石英玻璃材质的空间光学器件。2. The ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the laser collimating lens (12), the λ/4 space wave plate (13), the diffraction grating (14), The first microscope objective lens (15), the second microscope objective lens (16) and the plane reflection mirror (18) are space optical devices made of quartz glass. 3.根据权利要求1所述的一种超高速正交偏振成像装置,其特征在于,所述的飞秒激光器(1)的中心波长在C波段,脉冲重复频率100MHz,脉冲持续时间几百飞秒。3. The ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the center wavelength of the femtosecond laser (1) is in the C-band, the pulse repetition frequency is 100MHz, and the pulse duration is several hundred femtoseconds. second. 4.根据权利要求1所述的一种超高速正交偏振成像装置,其特征在于,所述的色散光纤(3)的色散量相当于20km单模光纤,将脉冲展宽到纳秒级。4 . The ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device according to claim 1 , wherein the dispersion amount of the dispersive fiber (3) is equivalent to a 20km single-mode fiber, and the pulse is broadened to nanosecond level. 5 . 5.根据权利要求1所述的一种超高速正交偏振成像装置,其特征在于,所述的衍射光栅(14)为每毫米600线的光栅,此种光栅为偏振不敏感的光学元件。5 . The ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device according to claim 1 , wherein the diffraction grating ( 14 ) is a grating with 600 lines per millimeter, and the grating is a polarization-insensitive optical element. 6 . 6.根据权利要求1所述的一种超高速正交偏振成像装置,其特征在于,所述的指定长度保偏光纤(8)用于延迟脉冲,其长度需能使第一保偏耦合器(7)与偏振合束器(9)连接的上分支光纤总长度比下分支长L米,长度L=v/(2f),其中v为光在光纤中的传播速度,f为飞秒激光器(1)输出激光的重复频率。6. The ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the specified length of the polarization-maintaining fiber (8) is used to delay pulses, and its length needs to make the first polarization-maintaining coupler (7) The total length of the upper branch fiber connected to the polarization beam combiner (9) is L meters longer than the lower branch, and the length L=v/(2f), where v is the propagation speed of light in the fiber, and f is the femtosecond laser (1) The repetition frequency of the output laser. 7.一种超高速正交偏振成像方法,其特征在于,所述的成像方法包括:7. An ultra-high-speed orthogonal polarization imaging method, wherein the imaging method comprises: S1、飞秒激光的预处理步骤,飞秒激光器(1)产生宽带脉冲光,滤波器(2)对飞秒激光器(1)出射的激光滤波,选定中心波长1550nm以及合适的光谱宽度,色散光纤(3)对滤波后的激光通过群速度色散效应在时域上展宽,光纤放大器(4)对经过色散后滤波激光进行功率放大;S1, the preprocessing step of the femtosecond laser, the femtosecond laser (1) generates broadband pulsed light, the filter (2) filters the laser light emitted by the femtosecond laser (1), selects the center wavelength of 1550 nm and a suitable spectral width, dispersion The optical fiber (3) widens the filtered laser light in the time domain through the group velocity dispersion effect, and the fiber amplifier (4) amplifies the power of the filtered laser light after the dispersion; S2、正交双偏光的产生步骤,预处理完的激光脉冲经偏振控制器(5)和光纤起偏器(6)的组合以保证脉冲的线偏振态,然后线偏振脉冲经第一保偏耦合器(7)一分为二,上臂的脉冲经一段用于延迟的指定长度保偏光纤(8)以保证上下两臂的脉冲合起来后不会重叠,两臂的线偏振脉冲经偏振合束器(9)合束,合束的脉冲是沿着保偏光纤快慢轴的两个正交偏振脉冲,之后经第二保偏耦合器(10)一分二为信号光和参考光;S2, the step of generating orthogonal double polarized light, the preprocessed laser pulse is combined with the polarization controller (5) and the optical fiber polarizer (6) to ensure the linear polarization state of the pulse, and then the linear polarization pulse is passed through the first polarization maintaining The coupler (7) is divided into two parts, and the pulse of the upper arm is passed through a specified length of polarization maintaining fiber (8) for delay to ensure that the pulses of the upper and lower arms will not overlap after being combined, and the linearly polarized pulses of the two arms are polarized and combined. The beam combiner (9) is combined, and the combined pulses are two orthogonally polarized pulses along the fast and slow axes of the polarization-maintaining fiber, which are then divided into two by the second polarization-maintaining coupler (10) into signal light and reference light; S3、信号光的信息加载步骤,信号光先经环形器(11)、激光准直透镜(12)导入空间光成像系统,然后信号光依次经激光准直透镜(12)、λ/4空间波片(13)、衍射光栅(14)将激光转为平行空间光,然后空间散开,之后由第一显微物镜(15)、第二显微物镜(16)聚焦在样品(17)完成样品信息的加载,最后携带样品(17)的两个正交偏振方向的信息由平面反射镜(18)反射回光纤回路;而参考光支路经光纤延迟线(19)后进入光学相干接收机(20);S3, the information loading step of the signal light, the signal light is firstly introduced into the space light imaging system through the circulator (11) and the laser collimating lens (12), and then the signal light is sequentially passed through the laser collimating lens (12), λ/4 space wave The sheet (13) and the diffraction grating (14) convert the laser light into parallel space light, which is then spatially dispersed, and then focused on the sample (17) by the first microscope objective lens (15) and the second microscope objective lens (16) to complete the sample The information is loaded, and finally the information carrying the two orthogonal polarization directions of the sample (17) is reflected back to the optical fiber circuit by the plane mirror (18); and the reference optical branch enters the optical coherent receiver ( 20); S4、光学相干探测及图像还原步骤,加载样品信息的信号光与参考光一起接入光学相干接收机(20),光学相干接收机(20)对正交偏振光进行相干探测,同时得到样品的两个正交方向的偏振和相位信息,并将光信号转换为电信号,再经高速模数转换模块(21)对电信号高速采样转化为数字信号输出,最后由计算机(22)解调复原图像。S4, the optical coherent detection and image restoration step, the signal light loaded with the sample information is connected to the optical coherent receiver (20) together with the reference light, and the optical coherent receiver (20) performs coherent detection on the orthogonally polarized light, and simultaneously obtains the sample's polarization and phase information in two orthogonal directions, and convert the optical signal into an electrical signal, then the high-speed analog-to-digital conversion module (21) converts the electrical signal into a digital signal for high-speed sampling, and finally demodulates and restores it by a computer (22). image.
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