Timing between streak cameras with a precision of 10 ps

Richard A. Lerche

doi:10.1117/12.23366

1 January 1991 Timing between streak cameras with a precision of 10 ps

Richard A. Lerche

Proceedings Volume 1346, Ultrahigh- and High-Speed Photography, Videography, Photonics, and Velocimetry '90; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.23366
Event: 34th Annual International Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, 1990, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The laser beams irradiating a target at the Nova laser facility comprise a set of ten simultaneous events. Two streak cameras whose resolutions are 40 ps record the power history for each beam five beams to a camera their time bases are cross-timed with a fiducial pulse. Analysis of data recorded for target experiments conducted over a six month period show the precision for cross-timing signals between two streak cameras to be ps and for characterizing a single temporal feature of a pulse to be ps. Beam synchronization at the end of six months was within 20 ps of the synchronization at the beginning of the experiments. A beam timing shift greater than 25 ps can be detected on a single laser shot shifts of 10 to 20 ps require several shots to detect. 1 .

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Richard A. Lerche "Timing between streak cameras with a precision of 10 ps", Proc. SPIE 1346, Ultrahigh- and High-Speed Photography, Videography, Photonics, and Velocimetry '90, (1 January 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.23366

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