High speed microscope with spectral resolution

A microscope for generating a multi-dimensional, spectrally resolved image, the microscope comprising:

• a light source that generates a pulsed light beam;
• a multi-beam generator that receives the pulsed light beam and emits multiple light beams;
• a light beam line generator that receives the multiple light beams and emits multiple light beam lines;
• a scanning mechanism that simultaneously scans the multiple light beam lines across a sample to cause the sample to emit energy;
• a dispersive element that receives the emitted energy from the sample and disperses the emitted energy into spectral components that form continuous spectrum areas, each continuous spectrum area corresponding to one of the multiple light beam lines;
• and
• a detector that receives each continuous spectrum simultaneously.

A microscope for generating a multi-dimensional, spectrally resolved image, the microscope comprising:

• a light source that generates a pulsed light beam;
• a multi-beam generator that receives the pulsed light beam and emits multiple light beams;
• a scanning mechanism that simultaneously scans the multiple light beams across a sample, the sample emitting energy corresponding to each of the multiple light beams;
• a dispersive element that receives the emitted energy from the sample and disperses the emitted energy into spectral components that form continuous spectrum lines, each continuous spectrum line corresponding to one of the multiple light beams;
• and
• a detector that receives each continuous spectrum line simultaneously.

A method of generating a multi-dimensional, spectrally resolved image, the method comprising:

• generating a pulsed light beam;
• reflecting, by a curved mirror, the pulsed light beam as a light beam line;
• scanning the light beam across a sample to cause the sample to emit energy;
• dispersing the emitted energy from the sample into spectral components that form a continuous spectrum area, the continuous spectrum area corresponding to each point along the light beam line;
• and
• receiving, by a detector, the continuous spectrum.

A method of generating a multi-dimensional, spectrally resolved image, the method comprising:

• generating a pulsed light beam;
• receiving, via a multi-beam generator, the pulsed light beam;
• emitting, by the multi-beam generator, multiple light beams in response to the pulsed light beam;
• simultaneously scanning the multiple light beams across a sample, the sample emitting energy corresponding to each of the multiple light beams;
• dispersing the emitted energy into spectral components that form continuous spectrum lines, each continuous spectrum line corresponding to one of the multiple light beams;
• and
• receiving, by a detector, each continuous spectrum line simultaneously.