  Atomic time scale imaging, opening a new era for studying dynamics in
microcosmos, is presently attracting immense research interesting on the global
level due to its powerful ability. On the atom level, physics, chemistry, and
biology are identical for researching atom motion and atomic state change. The
light possesses twoness, the information carrier and the research resource. The
most fundamental principle of this imaging is that light records the event
modulated light field by itself, so called all optical imaging. This paper can
answer what is the essential standard to develop and evaluate atomic time scale
imaging, what is the optimal imaging system, and what are the typical
techniques to implement this imaging, up to now. At present, the best record in
the experiment, made by multistage optical parametric amplification (MOPA), is
realizing 50 fs resolved optical imaging with a spatial resolution of ~83 lp/mm
at an effective framing rate of 10^13 fps for recording an ultrafast optical
lattice with its rotating speed up to 10^13 rad/s.
