变像管皮秒分幅和飞秒扫描相机的实验研究

本文将描述两种变像管皮秒分幅相机和一种飞秒扫描相机的设计特点、动态测试方法和实验结果。第一种变像管皮秒分幅相机采用了交叉点扫描多光栏分幅的方法,其变像管具有长加速电极和短阳极的静电弱聚焦系统与偏转灵敏度高、偏转像质好的偏转群体结构;其超快速控制电路只需一个光电开关斜坡电压脉冲发生器和一个特殊设计的脉冲成形网络即可送出具有合适时间关联的4对正负极性三角波和一对正负极性的单台阶液电压脉冲。实验表明,该相机在提供6幅分幅图像的情况下,每幅图像全曝光时间为80ps,除 3～4幅图像间的时间间隔为680ps外,其余均为160ps,动态空间分辨率达到5.51p/mm。第二种变像管皮秒分幅相机采用快门式分幅方法;其变像管采用行波偏转系统,内增强MCP做成带状线结构,并具有输入输出阻抗变换器,其三台阶波和快门脉冲序列均由光电开关电路和脉冲成形网络产生。该相机在提供三幅分幅图像的情况下,每幅图像全曝光时间为660ps,画幅之间的时间间隔均为4ns,动态空间分辨率为5.5lp/mm。飞秒扫描相机采用MCP内增强飞秒扫描变像管、具有负时间畸变的中继透镜和无触发晃动的光电开关扫描电路。实验证明,该相机在时间分辨率为500fs时,其动态范围为30;当时间分辨率为1.2ps时,其动态范围可达500;无扫描图像弯曲现象,触发晃动为±2ps.     

Simultaneous autocorrelation and synchroscan streak camera measurement of cavity length detuning effects in a synchronously pumped cw dye laser

The cavity matching condition for optimum stable, picosecond pulse generation in a synchronously pumped c.w. mode locked dye laser has been achieved with an accuracy of 2 μm using a synchronously operated streak camera exhibiting a modest temporal resolution of 9 ps. This was possible because of the observed distinct asymmetry of the pulses generated under conditions of cavity mismatch about the zero position. Simultaneous autocorrelation measurements confirmed the streak camera observations.     

用于双光子激发荧光寿命显微成像的高重复频率皮秒扫描相机

建立了一台基于新研制的高重复频率皮秒扫描相机的双光子激发荧光寿命显微成像系统,重点介绍所研制的高重复频率皮秒扫描相机。为了在高时间分辨力的同时扩大时间测量范围,实现大面积两维空间高时间分辨取样测量,从而提高采样速率和更有效地发挥扫描相机的作用,设计和研制了一种大面积、高时间分辨力扫描变像管和一种重复频率高达1MHz的斜坡电压扫描电路。基于上述关键部件所研制的扫描相机具有重复频率高、扫描速度可调、时间分辨力高、工作面积大、非线性低、触发晃动小等优点。用钛宝石飞秒激光器作为激光脉冲源,通过脉冲提取器将76MHz的高重复频率降低为1MHz,采用可调延时器和标准具对扫描相机的时间分辨力、扫描速度和非线性进行标定。该系统的时间分辨力达到6.5ps,非线性为2.60%,可测量的时间范围从十几皮秒到几十纳秒。测量了若丹明6G和香豆素314两种标准荧光染料的荧光寿命,取得了与参考文献一致的实验结果。     

A ∼20 ps resolution crystal streak camera

This paper describes the design and performance of a streak camera based on a LiNbO₃ electro-optic deflector. The camera has a total sweep time of ～4 ns and a temporal resolution of ～20 ps for ～0.5 μm radiation. Operation between ～0.35 μm and ～5.2 μm with either coherent or incoherent light is possible. Consequently the camera has many potential applications in the field of picosecond optical chronoscopy.     

Picosecond time delay fluorimetry using a jitter-free streak camera

A streak camera driven with picosecond accuracy by a laser-activated cryogenic Si-switch has been used to measure the decay time of malachite green in water by a pulse fluorimetry technique. The single shot timing accuracy of the streak camera (a few ps) corresponds to ～10% of the optical pulsewidth. The overall stability of the system allows the averaging of hundreds of laser shots without image translation improving both the signal to noise ratio and timing accuracy of the measurements.. The subpicosecond timing accuracy afforded by shot averaging has enabled us to measure a 2 ps fluorescence decay time for a low quantum yield sample with a 20 ps excitation pulse.     

On-line temporal characterization of an X-ray streak camera

A simple system for an on-line temporal characterization of an X-ray streak camera is described. Multiple UV-transmitting fiber optic channels with known relative time delays facilitate measurements of sweep speed in addition to providing a fiducial signal. Results of measurements on variation of sweep speed across the output screen of an in-house developed X-ray streak camera of an average sweep speed of 24.5 ps/mm and a temporal resolution of 7.5 ps are presented.     

Picosecond X-ray plasma radiation measurements

Direct picosecond measurements of X-ray laser plasma radiation were performed with a high-speed X-ray image-converter camera (ICC). This camera operates in the single-frame mode with an exposure time ranging from 5 ns to 0.5 μs and in the streak mode with 5 × 10⁹ to 5 × 10⁷ cm/s streak velocities. Its temporal resolution in the streak mode was calculated to be about 7 ps. A plasma was created by focussing 10 ps 1 to 2 joule laser pulses onto a titanium target placed in a vacuum chamber. The halfwidth of the recorded X-ray pulses varied from 30 to 60 ps.     

一种用于荧光皮秒时间分辨光谱的测试系统

本文详细描述了一种由氩离子锁模激光器、样品池、分光系统及微微秒条纹相机构成的用于测试低强度荧光微微秒时间分辨光谱的系统。给出了典型样品的测试结果:时间分辨率为10ps,光谱范围为500Å—800Å。最后对测量结果进行了分析讨论。     

Reduction of jitter in streak-camera synchronization with picosecond laser pulses

A laser activated silicon switch generates the sweeping voltage for a picosecond streak camera. With a Photochron streak tube shot-to-shot jitter has been reduced to ?±15 ps for writting speeds in excess of 2×10⁸ ms^-1.     

皮秒级时间分辨超快高能脉冲激光光谱

介绍了一种利用光电摄谱法和条纹管相结合测量ps级时间分辨超快高能脉冲激光光谱的方法。论述了条纹相机工作原理和平面衍射光栅的分光原理,分析指出利用介绍的装置,可以实现波长300 nm ～1 600 nm、脉宽＞2 ps超快高能脉冲激光的光谱测量。采用1 054 nm超快高能脉冲激光器,实验得到了条纹像,对条纹像进行数据处理后得到测量光谱曲线,通过能量标定后,得到了超快高能脉冲激光器实际光谱曲线,验证了ps级时间分辨超快高能脉冲激光光谱方法。讨论了系统中耦合透镜组对光谱测量和光纤色散角对条纹图像的影响,论述了ps级时间分辨超快高能脉冲激光光谱的作用。随着条纹管制造技术的飞速发展,该方法可用于fs级激光光谱的测量。     

一种长狭缝软X射线扫描相机系统

 介绍了一种长狭缝软X射线扫描相机系统。其有效工作面积达0.1mm×30mm，以满足宽频谱记录要求，通过优化变像管电子光学系统设计，尽可能地减小了时间畸变；提出利用计算机软件对残存时间畸变进行高精度校正的方法。动态测试表明，在2.5cm/ns的扫描速度下，其动态空间分辨率优于15Lp/mm，时间分辨率优于5ps。     

High-dynamic-range laser-pulse-contrast measurement with a plasma-shuttered streak camera

The dynamic range of a picosecond visible streak camera has been improved by the combination of a plasma shutter and multishot averaging performed with a photoconductive switch sweep circuit. We use this technique to measure the contrast of a 100-fs laser pulse over 2 ns with a dynamic range of 7 orders of magnitude.     

Linear picosecond electron-optical chronoscopy at a repetition rate of 140 MHz

A picosecond streak camera operating in synchronism with C.W. mode-locked lasers provides real-time integrated measurement of repetitive luminous phenomena with a temporal resolution of ～ 10 ps. The durations of pulses from an actively mode-locked argon ion laser (514.5 nm) have been measured to be ～ 90 ps and the system is particularly suitable for the measurement of dye fluorescence lifetimes.     

高压功率晶体管在扫描相机中的应用

本文讨论了使用高压功率晶体管作为开关器件研制的扫描电路,并在变象管扫描相机中应用,获得了良好的结果,大大提高了扫描电路的耐大电流冲击性,提高了相机的可靠性与稳定性,最高扫速可达10mm/ns,扫描非线性最大为3%,触发晃动为±30ps.工作频率高达20kHz.     

基于物联网的智能化条纹相机控制系统的研制

为满足条纹相机便携化、智能化的发展需要,研制了一种高适用性的分布式智能控制系统,实现了对条纹相机工作参量的监测,对电极电压、扫描工作模式的精确控制以及对图像的采集与处理.基于物联网技术框架与客户端-服务器的结构模式,实现了有线及无线设备扩展的多机协作功能与移动监控功能.并针对该控制系统,设计了具有自保护功能的自激型反激式可调高压电源模块,基于自激式拓扑的简单结构,实现了电源的小型化,且线性调整准确度可达1%.采用Nd∶YLF脉冲激光器(脉宽8ps,波长526.5nm)对应用该控制系统的可见光皮秒条纹相机进行标定,测试得到动态分辨率为12.75Lp/mm(CTF=14%),动态范围为234∶1,时间分辨率达到14ps.     

扫描相机标定脉冲信号位置的确定及噪声处理

 扫描相机标定数据处理中的一个关键问题是如何准确确定脉冲信号的位置,实验数据的信噪比和脉冲信号位置的定义方法都会对标定结果的准确性产生影响。采用了取半高宽的方法来确定扫描相机标定脉冲信号的位置,在信噪比比较高 （大于100） 的情况下,该方法确定标定信号的位置可以达到亚像素水平。对于信噪比比较低 (小于10) 的实验数据,先采用快速傅里叶变换方法对其进行滤波,通过滤波可以极大地抑制噪声信号的影响,然后采用“半高宽法”确定脉冲信号的位置,最后得出可信的标定结果。当扫描相机定在0.3 ns的扫描档时,通过该方法得到的扫描速度为0.214 ps/pixel,扫描不确定度为0.002 9 ps/pixel,拟合线性相关系数为0.999 7。     

高重复频率触发模式皮秒扫描相机

讨论了高重复频率扫描电路的研制,利用此扫描电路研制了扫描相机,使用掺钛兰宝石激光器进行了时间分辨率的标定,使用半导体激光器作为光源进行了脉冲宽度的测试.最高工作频率为：1 MHz,时间分辨率为：1.8 ps.     

单次相关仪中非线性晶体KD*P的相位匹配条件分析

本文对应用于单次相关仪中的非线性晶体KD^*P的相位匹配条件进行了理论分析,得到了晶体的最佳相位匹配设计参数。利用此参数加工的非线性晶体已成功地用于测量超短光脉冲实验中,测得CPM Nd:YAG激光器输出的1.06μm光脉冲宽度为14ps.与条纹相机测量的结果二者符合较好。     

Streak camera investigation of an actively mode-locked flashlamp-pumped dye laser

Direct measurements using a picosecond streak camera have shown that single pulses of 2–6 ps duration are obtained in the middle and latter stages of the output train of an actively mode-locked flashlamp-pumped dye laser. Measured pulse-widths showed no critical dependence on matching the cavity length to that of the driving master oscillator. In contrast pulses selected from the early stages of the train exhibited a complicated structure.     

Relaxation and quantum beat of picosecond backward echo in Na vapor

The backward photon echo has been realized for the first time in the picosecond regime on the Na D line, and used to measure collisional relaxation of the Na-Ar system. The separations of the successive 10 ps excitation pulses were varied from 300 to 1500 ps. By means of a streak camera, we directly observed a quantum beat of the echo pulse arising from the hyperfine splitting of the 3S_{$\text{1}\text{2}$} ground state of Na.