Numerous steps in designing an experimental prototype of a versatile pico-femtosecond streak camera are overviewed. After creation a sub-100fs streak tube with electrostatic focusing lens our main efforts were concentrated on appropriate pulse circuitries design capable to provide low delay/jitter (10 ns, 10ps) at tens of mW input triggering power level, as well as a wide range of streak speeds varying from 10⁸ cm/s to 10¹¹ cm/s. A special input relay optics with "build-up" time shorter than 100fs was also developed. Sub-10 fs laser palses from Femtosource Synergy oscillator ("Femto- Lasers", Austria) was employed for dynamic tests of the created sub-100fs image tubes and cameras.

Date Published: 10 February 2009
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 7126, 28th International Congress on High-Speed Imaging and Photonics, 71261D (10 February 2009); doi: 10.1117/12.823432

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7126:
28th International Congress on High-Speed Imaging and Photonics
Harald Kleine; Martha Patricia Butron Guillen, Editor(s)