Patent ID: 8115170

Claim:
A Scanning Time-Resolved Emission (S-TRE) microscope, comprising: a laser source for navigation; an optical system configured to collect light from emissions generated from a device under test (DUT), where the optical system includes a moveable mirror configured to redirect spontaneous emissions from the DUT and further configured to be out of an optical path of the laser source during navigation; a scanning system configured to permit the emissions of light to be collected from positions across the DUT in accordance with a scan pattern; a triggering signal, generated from one of the DUT and an external timing generator when an event occurs on the DUT, that is configured to indicate an instant when an event occurs on the DUT; and a timing photodetector, optically coupled to the scanning system, that is configured to detect a single photon or photons of the emissions of light from the particular positions across the DUT such that the emissions of light are correlated to the positions using the triggering signal to create a time-dependent map of the emissions of light across the DUT.