Electro-optic transient imaging instrumentation development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Implications for SSC instrumentation development

Conference · Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6253210

Lowry, M; Jacoby, B; Schulte, H

Over the last decade, the underground weapons physics laboratories fielded by LLNL's Nuclear Test and Experimental Sciences (NTES) program have experienced marked change. This change is characterized by a phenomenal growth in the amount of data returned per event. These techniques have been developed as a result of the severe demands placed upon transient instrumentation by the physics requirements of our underground nuclear laboratories. The detector front-ends must quickly detect, process and transmit a large volume of data to recording stations located approximately 1 km from the event. In a recent event, the detector front-ends successfully handled data at a prompt rate of approximately 13 Terabits/sec. Largely, this advance can be attributed directly to the increased use of electro-optic techniques. These highly-parallel high-bandwidth imaging instrumentation systems developed for the test program may have a lot to offer the high-energy physics community tackling the challenge of the unprecedented luminosity and fidelity demands at the SSC. In what follows, we discuss details of a few of our prompt instrumentation techniques and compare these capabilities to the detector requirements for the challenging physics at the SSC. 5 refs., 3 figs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/DP
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6253210
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-105646; CONF-9010212-37; ON: DE91008738; TRN: 91-008374
• Resource Relation: Conference: Symposium on detector research and development for the Superconducting Super Collider, Fort Worth, TX (USA), 15-18 Oct 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
IMAGE PROCESSING
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DESIGN
ELECTRO-OPTICAL EFFECTS
MEASURING METHODS
STREAK CAMERAS
SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER
CAMERAS
PROCESSING
RADIATION DETECTORS
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
STORAGE RINGS
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