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Streak camera aperature function

Conference ·
OSTI ID:6447698
This paper derives the temporal bandwidth of a multichannel streak camera from scanning and Fourier theories. It first describes what a multichannel streak-camera system is and then models the camera through the use of a transformation from the spatial to time domain. The image on the photocathode surface is transformed mathematically to the phosphor through the use of a convolution of the image and a moving aperture. The resulting image on the phosphor then becomes a function of both space and time. A Fourier transform of this function gives both a spatial and temporal bandwidth of the tube. From the model it can be shown how to properly use the tube to obtain temporal data.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
6447698
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-83-810; CONF-830425-6; ON: DE83010088
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English