Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 53, Issue 11, 1132001(2024)
Development of Compressed Ultrafast Photography System for Streak Tube
Ultrafast diagnosis technologies are primarily employed to acquire images and information from ultrafast phenomena in the fields of physics, optics, and materials at nanosecond even femtosecond scale. Compressed Ultrafast Photography (CUP) is a major breakthrough in the field of ultrafast diagnosis, which is one of the cutting-edge technologies to acquire information efficiently in ultrafast dynamic events.According to Nyquist Theorem, the sampling frequency must be at least twice the frequency of the original signal to ensure that the sampled signal can accurately reconstruct the original signal. But in the condition where the Compressed Sensing (CS) theory is applicable, when the signal satisfies sparsity, the original signal can be reconstructed with high quality in conjunction with a priori knowledge, even when the sampling rate is significantly lower than that required by Nyquist Theorem. The streak camera is one of the major devices for ultrafast diagnosis with ultra-high temporal resolution which is at picosecond scale. The streak camera converts the optical signal into a photoelectron beam through the photocathode. Whereafter, the streak camera deflects the photoelectron beam with a time-varying deflecting electric field, and the imaging position of photoelectron beam changes over time. Therefore, the streak camera is able to realize time-resolved images of the photoelectron beam with high temporal resolution. In order to avoid overlapping of images of different moments, a slit is added to limit the spatial range of the optical signal, thus the streak camera is only able to realize one-dimensional imaging in general. However, since CUP combining CS theory with streak camera, it has both high temporal resolution and two-dimensional spatial-resolved capability. Consequently, CUP is able to realize time-resolved two-dimensional spatial diagnosis of ultrafast events with one single shot.In this paper, a CUP system is designed and presented. Two-dimensional ultrafast diagnosis experiment is simulated, and the experimental platform of CUP system is built to diagnose the intensity evolution process of the picosecond laser pulse in both spatial and time dimensions. The CUP system is mainly composed of streak camera, DMD, optical path system and synchronous modulation module. The system first uses DMD to encode the original ultrafast image
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Houzhi CAI, Zhuoming DU, Fangding YAO, Junkai LIU, Jinyuan LIU, Lijuan XIANG. Development of Compressed Ultrafast Photography System for Streak Tube[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2024, 53(11): 1132001
Category: Ultrafast Optics
Received: Aug. 12, 2024
Accepted: Nov. 11, 2024
Published Online: Jan. 8, 2025
The Author Email: XIANG Lijuan (xianglijuan@szu.edu.cn)