Everything about Scan-Optics

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Scan-OpticsA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Dome-Shaped mmWave Lens Antenna Optimization for Wide-Angle Scanning and Scan Loss Mitigation Using Geometric Optics and Multiple ScatteringInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics (Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics)The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: High-speed adaptive optics line-scan OCT for cellular-resolution optoretinographyCited 85 times
5. Go sideways: Optical character recognitionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: MicrotekA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• High-speed adaptive optics line-scan OCT for cellular-resolution optoretinography

  Vimal Prabhu Pandiyan, Xiaoyun Jiang, Aiden Maloney-Bertelli · 2020 · Biomedical Optics Express · 85 citations

• Reflective mirror-based line-scan adaptive optics OCT for imaging retinal structure and function

  Vimal Prabhu Pandiyan, Xiaoyun Jiang, James A. Kuchenbecker · 2021 · Biomedical Optics Express · 37 citations

• Study of Impulse Polymer Rheo-Optics by Step-Scan FT-IR Time-Resolved Spectroscopy

  Haochuan Wang, Richard A. Palmer, Christopher J. Manning · 1997 · Applied Spectroscopy · 28 citations

• High-speed adaptive optics line scan confocal retinal imaging for human eye

  Jing Lu, Boyu Gu, Xiaolin Wang · 2017 · PLOS ONE · 25 citations

• Tilt (in)variant lateral scan in oblique plane microscopy: a geometrical optics approach

  Manish Kumar, Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy · 2020 · Biomedical Optics Express · 24 citations

• Step-and-scan lithography using reduction optics

  Jere D. Buckley, Daniel N. Galburt, Charles Karatzas · 1989 · Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics Processing and Phenomena · 12 citations

• Multichannel scan surface plasmon resonance biochip with stationary optics and baseline updating capability

  Cheng Wang, Ruping Liu, Wei Zhang · 2013 · Journal of Biomedical Optics · 8 citations

• Circularly polarized light to study linear magneto-optics for ferrofluids: θ -scan technique

  Xiangshen Meng, Yan Huang, Zhenghong He · 2018 · Measurement Science and Technology · 6 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Dome-Shaped mmWave Lens Antenna Optimization for Wide-Angle Scanning and Scan Loss Mitigation Using Geometric Optics and Multiple Scattering

  Youngno Youn, Jaehong Choi, Daehyeon Kim · 2022 · IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques · 10 citations

• Development of a confocal line-scan laser scattering probe for dark-field surface defects detection of transmissive optics

  Jingtao Dong, Kai Chang, Zhipeng Tian · 2022 · Review of Scientific Instruments · 6 citations

• Assessing low laser damage densities of fused silica optics by means of a functional raster scan protocol

  L. Lamaignère, C. Bouyer, T. Donval · 2023 · Review of Scientific Instruments · 4 citations

• Theoretical-experimental method of nonlinear optics: the Z-scan technique

  Antonio-Alfonso Rodriguez-Rosales, Omar Guillermo Morales Saavedra, Fabiola Cristina Rodríguez Estrada · 2023 · South Florida Journal of Development · 3 citations

• Single-scan adaptive optics-enabled quantitative optical coherence tomography angiography for absolute three-dimensional retinal blood flow mapping

  Achyut J. Raghavendra, Osamah J. Saeedi, Daniel X. Hammer · 2026 · Optica · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics (Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics)Peter W. Hawkes · 1984
• Handbook of optical and laser scanningGerald F. Marshall · 2004
• 📕Refracted-ray scanning (refracted near-field scanning) for measuring index profils of optical fibersMatt Young · 1981
• Scanning Tunneling Microscopy IIRoland Wiesendanger · 1992
• Advances in Imaging and Electron PhysicsPeter W. Hawkes · 1995
• Scanning microscopy for nanotechnologyZhong Lin Wang · 2006
• Scanning tunneling microscopy IR. Wiesendanger, D. Anselmetti · 1992
• 📕Pointing and scanning control of optical instruments using rotating unbalanced masses · 1997

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