Dynamic Range Studies Of The RCA Streak Tube In The LLL Streak Camera

S. W. Thomas; G. E. Phillips

doi:10.1117/12.957620

27 July 1979 Dynamic Range Studies Of The RCA Streak Tube In The LLL Streak Camera

S. W. Thomas, G. E. Phillips

Proceedings Volume 0189, 13th Intl Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics; (1979) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957620
Event: 13th International Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics, 1978, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract

As indicated by tests on several cameras, the dynamic range of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory streak-camera system appears to be about two orders of magnitude greater than those reported for other systems for 10- to 200-ps pulses. The lack of a fine mesh grid in the RCA streak tube used in these cameras probably contributes to a lower system dynamic noise and therefore raises the dynamic range. A developmental tube with a mesh grid was tested and supports this conjecture. Order-of-magnitude variations in input slit width do not affect the spot size on the phosphor or the dynamic range of the RCA tube.

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S. W. Thomas and G. E. Phillips "Dynamic Range Studies Of The RCA Streak Tube In The LLL Streak Camera", Proc. SPIE 0189, 13th Intl Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics, (27 July 1979); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957620

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