Picosecond optical shutter for particle detection
Characteristics of an optical shutter utilizing Kerr effect induced by picosecond laser pulses in carbon disulfide are studied experimentally. The shutter has a gate time of 4.5 to 5 ps full width at half-maximum and a transmission of approximately 15 percent at a wavelength 0.53 $mu$m. Such an ultrafast shutter can be used as an optical signal gate in a sampling detection scheme that has picosecond time-resolution. The picosecond optical detection scheme is envisioned to have applications in experimental high-energy physics such as to time-resolve ultrashort Cherenkov or synchrotron radiation emitted by relativistic particles. Methods of synchronizing a laser-activated Kerr shutter with a particle accelerator or synchrotron are discussed. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- NSA Number:
- NSA-33-012148
- OSTI ID:
- 4146026
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-4255
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 30-JUN-76
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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440104* -Instrumentation-Radiation Instrumentation-High Energy Physics Instrumentation
*BEAM MONITORS
*CHERENKOV COUNTERS- OPTICAL EQUIPMENT
*OPTICAL EQUIPMENT
CARBON SULFIDES
KERR EFFECT
LASER RADIATION
OPTICAL SYSTEMS
PHOTOELECTRIC CELLS
SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
TIME RESOLUTION
TIMING PROPERTIES