Synchroscan streak camera temporal resolution improvement by phase locked loop technique

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4948, Issue , 2002, Pages 324-329

  Uhring, Wilfried ^a   Zint, Chantal Virginie ^a   Summ, Patrick ^b   Cunin, Bernard ^a  

^a Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^b Optronis GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

High speed camera; Phase locked loop; Phase noise; Picosecond temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING; JITTER; LASER BEAMS; LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHASE COMPARATORS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHOTOCATHODES; SOLID STATE LASERS; TRIGGER CIRCUITS;

PHASE DETECTOR; PHASE NOISE; PICOSECOND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; SYNCHROSCAN STREAK CAMERA;

STREAK CAMERAS;

EID: 0345283171     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.516884     Document Type: Conference Paper

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