PICOSECOND PHOTOGRAPHY AND TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROGRAPHY Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Some recent advances at Bell Laboratories are discussed. Rentzepis produced a moving open aperture in a Kerr cell in front of a spectrograph slit. This is the analog of earlier work that moved an image of an aperture along a spectrograph slit with a rotating mirror, but allows recording with a resolution of about a picosecond and a total duration 10 or 20 times this. Rentzepis and his colleagues have developed a technique to produce a train of pulses from a single picosecond pulse using an echelon. They can use this train of pulses to probe the open time of a shutter; and they have used it to show that the time to open the CS//2 Kerr cell is 1. 8 picoseconds.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF THE SMPTE-SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS

author list (cited authors)

  • COURTNEYPRATT, J. S., & RENTZEPIS, P. M.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • COURTNEYPRATT, JS||RENTZEPIS, PM

publication date

  • June 1975