An Improved Approach To Characterizing And Presenting Streak Camera Performance

J. D. Wiedwald; B. A. Jones

doi:10.1117/12.949884

14 January 1986 An Improved Approach To Characterizing And Presenting Streak Camera Performance

J. D. Wiedwald, B. A. Jones

Proceedings Volume 0569, High Speed Photography, Videography, and Photonics III; (1986) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.949884
Event: 29th Annual Technical Symposium, 1985, San Diego, United States

Abstract

The performance of a streak camera recording system is strongly linked to the technique used to amplify, detect and quantify the streaked image. At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) streak camera images have been recorded both on film and by fiber-optically coupling to charge-coupled devices (CCD's). During the development of a new process for recording these images (lens coupling the image onto a cooled CCD) the definitions of important performance characteristics such as resolution and dynamic range were re-examined. As a result of this development, these performance characteristics are now presented to the streak camera user in a more useful format than in the past. This paper describes how these techniques are used within the Laser Fusion Program at LLNL. The system resolution is presented as a modulation transfer function, including the seldom reported effects that flare and light scattering have at low spatial frequencies. Data are presented such that a user can adjust image intensifier gain and pixel averaging to optimize the useful dynamic range in any particular application.

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J. D. Wiedwald and B. A. Jones "An Improved Approach To Characterizing And Presenting Streak Camera Performance", Proc. SPIE 0569, High Speed Photography, Videography, and Photonics III, (14 January 1986); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.949884

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