“…Looking forward, the dissemination of the all-optical interrogation approach will crucially depend on the continuous development of more powerful hardware (Mardinly et al ., 2018; Marshel et al ., 2019), more intuitive software (this paper and Russell et al ., 2019), more accurate optical algorithms (Eybposh et al ., 2020) and more sensitive opsins (Mardinly et al ., 2018; Marshel et al ., 2019) and indicators (Dana et al ., 2019). Beyond these specific avenues for improvement, all-optical interrogation will also benefit from ongoing work to increase our ability to image deep in cortical tissue, through the use of three-photon imaging (Horton et al ., 2013; Ouzounov et al ., 2017; Wang et al ., 2018; Weisenburger et al ., 2019; Yildirim et al ., 2019), red-shifted indicators (Zhao et al ., 2011; Inoue et al ., 2015; Dana et al ., 2016), adaptive optics (Wang et al ., 2015; Sun et al ., 2016) and GRIN lenses (Levene et al ., 2004; Jennings et al ., 2019), as well as approaches which allow us to image more neurons (Tsai et al ., 2015; Pachitariu et al ., 2016; Sofroniew et al ., 2016; Stirman et al ., 2016; Demas et al ., 2021) at faster rates (Lu et al ., 2017; Kazemipour et al ., 2018; Zhang et al ., 2019; Wu et al ., 2020).…”