Abstract
The synchronously operating streak camera is a powerful tool for the direct time-resolved measurement of a periodic low-intensity picosecond optical signal arising from experimental studies with mode-locked dye lasers.1 By using a mode-locked dye laser excitation source and a synchronous streak camera operating at the laser repetition rate, it is possible to superimpose successive camera traces, thus yielding an effective data accumulation rate of several megahertz and resulting in a substantially greater sensitivity and dynamic range than single-event streak cameras.
© 1981 Optical Society of America
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