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Title: Solid State Replacement of Rotating Mirror Cameras

Abstract

Rotating mirror cameras have been the mainstay of mega-frame per second imaging for decades. There is still no electronic camera that can match a film based rotary mirror camera for the combination of frame count, speed, resolution and dynamic range. The rotary mirror cameras are predominantly used in the range of 0.1 to 100 micro-seconds per frame, for 25 to more than a hundred frames. Electron tube gated cameras dominate the sub microsecond regime but are frame count limited. Video cameras are pushing into the microsecond regime but are resolution limited by the high data rates. An all solid state architecture, dubbed ''In-situ Storage Image Sensor'' or ''ISIS'', by Prof. Goji Etoh, has made its first appearance into the market and its evaluation is discussed. Recent work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has concentrated both on evaluation of the presently available technologies and exploring the capabilities of the ISIS architecture. It is clear though there is presently no single chip camera that can simultaneously match the rotary mirror cameras, the ISIS architecture has the potential to approach their performance.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
900111
Report Number(s):
UCRL-PROC-224062
Journal ID: ISSN 0277-786X; TRN: US200709%%395
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Journal Volume: 6279; Conference: Presented at: 27th International Congress on High Speed Photography & Photonics, Xi'An, China, Sep 17 - Sep 22, 2006
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; ARCHITECTURE; CAMERAS; ELECTRON TUBES; EVALUATION; LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY; MARKET; MIRRORS; PERFORMANCE; PHOTOGRAPHY; RESOLUTION; STORAGE; VELOCITY

Citation Formats

Frank, A M, and Bartolick, J M. Solid State Replacement of Rotating Mirror Cameras. United States: N. p., 2006. Web. doi:10.1117/12.725230.
Frank, A M, & Bartolick, J M. Solid State Replacement of Rotating Mirror Cameras. United States. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.725230
Frank, A M, and Bartolick, J M. 2006. "Solid State Replacement of Rotating Mirror Cameras". United States. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.725230. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/900111.
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title = {Solid State Replacement of Rotating Mirror Cameras},
author = {Frank, A M and Bartolick, J M},
abstractNote = {Rotating mirror cameras have been the mainstay of mega-frame per second imaging for decades. There is still no electronic camera that can match a film based rotary mirror camera for the combination of frame count, speed, resolution and dynamic range. The rotary mirror cameras are predominantly used in the range of 0.1 to 100 micro-seconds per frame, for 25 to more than a hundred frames. Electron tube gated cameras dominate the sub microsecond regime but are frame count limited. Video cameras are pushing into the microsecond regime but are resolution limited by the high data rates. An all solid state architecture, dubbed ''In-situ Storage Image Sensor'' or ''ISIS'', by Prof. Goji Etoh, has made its first appearance into the market and its evaluation is discussed. Recent work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has concentrated both on evaluation of the presently available technologies and exploring the capabilities of the ISIS architecture. It is clear though there is presently no single chip camera that can simultaneously match the rotary mirror cameras, the ISIS architecture has the potential to approach their performance.},
doi = {10.1117/12.725230},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/900111}, journal = {},
issn = {0277-786X},
number = ,
volume = 6279,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 2006},
month = {Fri Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 2006}
}

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