Non-destructive tomographic images for a semi-transparent bottle and fingers of man have been obtained in real time by using HAMAMATSU C1587 synchroscan streak camera and a colliding pulse mode locked ring dye laser which emits 615nm laser pulses with 100 femtosecond duration, as a probe. This new technique, Laser pulse tomography, has been invented by adopting the streak camera to analyze time delays of reflected and transmitted light from/through the object. Experimentally, spatial resolutions of approx. 1 mm for the tomographic direction and approx. 0.4 mm for the spatial direction on the objects have been achieved for the first time.

Date Published: 18 May 1987
PDF: 4 pages
Proc. SPIE 0702, International Topical Meeting on Image Detection and Quality, (18 May 1987); doi: 10.1117/12.966749

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 0702:
International Topical Meeting on Image Detection and Quality
Lucien F. Guyot, Editor(s)