Picosecond Semiconductor Lasers for Characterizing High-Speed Image Shutters

摘要

A portable system that utilizes solid state electronic timing circuits and a pulsed semiconductor laser for characterizing the optical gate sequence of high-speed image shutters, including microchannel-plate intensifier tubes (MCPTs), and silicon-intensifier target vidicons (SITVs), is described and compared to earlier methods of characterization. Gate sequences obtained using the systems and streak camera data of the semiconductor laser pulse are presented, with a brief discussion of the electronic delay timing and avalanche circuits used in the system. (ERA citation 10:047138)