Streak technique signifies stretching out, in terms of time, a _process under observation, generally along a line. Here the event under observation is imaged vbia the main lens to the slit of the streak camera. Only the image of the narrow strip of the event which camera lens and the rotating mirror on the film plane. on rotating of the mirror, a chronological record is retained, spatially stretched, on the film according to the speed of the camera.

Date Published: 1 March 1983
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 0348, 15th Intl Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics, (1 March 1983); doi: 10.1117/12.967861

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 0348:
15th Intl Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics
Lincoln L. Endelman, Editor(s)