Measurement of triggering instabilities of Imacon 500 streak cameras

David John Bowley; Philip Rickett; A. V. Babushkin; Nikolai S. Vorobiev; Alexander M. Prokhorov; Mikhail Ya. Schelev

doi:10.1117/12.24054

1 April 1991 Measurement of triggering instabilities of Imacon 500 streak cameras

David John Bowley, Philip Rickett, A. V. Babushkin, Nikolai S. Vorobiev, Alexander M. Prokhorov, Mikhail Ya. Schelev

Proceedings Volume 1358, 19th Intl Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.24054
Event: 19th International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics, 1990, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Abstract

5±lps, spectrally limited optical pulses with less than 0.5% energy instability, generated by hybrid mode-locked, and passive feedback controled YA1O :Nd3 crystal laser were employed for measurements of Imacon 500 streak cameas triggering instabilities. These cameras have operated in streak mode with the streak speed of SxlO9cm/s. Synchronization signal was produced with the help of a standard avalanche photodiode. Due to very high stability of the utilized picosecond laser pulses, it was possible to measure with few picosecond accuracy the jitter variation of Imacon 500 cameras. It was found that for some of them, the triggering jitter does not exceed lOps RMS. In the present communication we will discuss jitter dependence on triggering pulse amplitude, as well as on the mains voltage variations.

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David John Bowley, Philip Rickett, A. V. Babushkin, Nikolai S. Vorobiev, Alexander M. Prokhorov, and Mikhail Ya. Schelev "Measurement of triggering instabilities of Imacon 500 streak cameras", Proc. SPIE 1358, 19th Intl Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics, (1 April 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.24054

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