Parallelized compressive spontaneous Raman imaging via SPAD arrays (Conference Presentation)

Abstract

Compressive Raman imaging has emerged as a promising technique to speed up chemical imaging by compressing the data during acquisition. Yet, current scanning imaging speed is fundamentally limited by the sensors pixel dwell times of at best 1 µs. Here, we introduce a compressive Raman spectrometer layout equipped with a novel parallelized spatial acquisition using a single-photon avalanche detector array. We show imaging with pixel dwell times of <10µs using the otherwise weak spontaneous Raman effect, thereby reaching real-time imaging.