Basic design of a streak camera system which can be applied to real time measurements of picosecond phenomena is described. The system consists of a streak camera, using a new type of streak tube with the inclusion of a microchannel plate as an electron image intensifier, and an automatic data acquisition system, employing a silicon intensifier target (SIT) vidicon camera and a microprocessor-controlled video analyzer.
The relation between numerous factors and the limiting temporal resolution, the generation of the ramp voltage for the ultra-high speed deflection, the triggering jitter, the system gain, and the process of the A to D conversion are investigated.
The key requirements such as several parameters for the streak camera in order to obtain the limiting temporal resolution of 10 ps, the frame number of the integration to minimize the effect of the lag of the SIT, and the gain of the signal processing unit are also discussed
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