High-Speed Frame Photography with a Three-Stage Image Converter Utilizing Circuits with Mismatched Storage Lines
A three-stage image-converter tube is used to obtain sequences of high-speed photographs of fast low-brightness phenomena. The image converter has a light gain of 8000 ×. Mismatched coaxial cables are used to generate the deflection and shutter pulses. The framing rates range from 106/sec to 108/sec. Exposure times can be as large as the interframe times, or as short as 5 × 10-9 sec. The number of frames in a sequence can be from 6 to 15. The apparatus has been used to study electric discharges in vacuo when nondestructive current pulses are passed through fine metallic wires. Examples of the recorded sequences of pictures are presented.
- Print ISSN
- 0361-4573
- Published
- 1962-01
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/J16910
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