Evolution of Photonic Time Stretch: From Analog to Digital Conversion to   Blood Screening
  We show how the ability to slow down, amplify, and capture fast transient events can produce high-throughput real-time instruments ranging from digitizers to imaging flow cytometers for detection of rare diseased cells in blood. 
Bahram Jalali, Keisuke Goda, Ali Fard, and Sang Hyup Kim
physics.ins-det physics.optics