Camera with full control from PC, designed to record and measure spatial-temporal parameters of high speed phenomena in single-frame and linear sweep modes with a maximum temporal resolution of ~ 50 ps.

Small-sized camera with linear sweep and single-frame modes with full control from PC

Fields of application:

• ballistic research;
• studies of combustion, detonation, explosion, scattering of fragmentation fields, soil, etc;
• shock waves physics;
• laser physics;
• nonlinear optics;
• nonstationary spectroscopy;
• nuclear physics;
• plasma physics including thermonuclear synthesis;
• electrical breakdowns and discharges including lightning;
• ecology (a recorder in LIDAR systems for detection and determination of air or water pollution’s location, size and chemical composition), etc.

Main components of the camera:

• input lens (a set of lenses is an option);
• electromechanical shutter;
• PV-202 time-analyzing streak tube with S-25 photocathode applied on a fiber-optic disk, pair of deflecting plates, one microchannel plate (MCP) and luminescent screen applied on a fiber-optic disk;
• power supply unit;
• three interchangeable control units for millisecond, microsecond and nanosecond sweep and frame ranges;
• SDU R-205 CCD camera (1392×1032 pixels, 12-bit ADC, linear dynamic range ≥ 300) with electric (≤ 5 m) or fiber optic (≤100 m) connection to PC;
• laptop with installed software;
• three interchangeable slits with width of 0.05, 0.1 and 0.2 mm, installed close to the cathode fiber-optic disk;
• test-objects – slit test-object and frame test object (GOI No. 4 test object), installed close to the cathode fiber-optic disk to perform spatial resolution check;
• neutral density filters D~0.5, 1, 2, installed on the input lens or on its seat;
• mounting plate for fixing the camera at the workplace.

Software:

Software allows to obtain visual and digital information about the registered process. Multi-window mode allows to work with multiple images. Images are saved in files, which, in addition to the image, can also contain metadata with information about the shooting conditions, as well as text comments.

Software Features:

• configuring camera triggering settings;
• correction of geometric and photometric distortions of the image, including the non-uniformity of the sweep coefficient;
• calculation of the numerical characteristics of the image (brightness, duration, size, speed);
• image transformations.

Images can be exported to a standard 12-bit TIFF format for further processing in third-party software.

Operating conditions:

• Humidity ≤ 80%
• Temperature 283 – 308 К
• Pressure 95 - 105 kPa

Main Specifications

Complete set

Available camera options:

1. К008-S/1 – Camera with CU-1 control unit. Nanosecond sweep ranges.
2. К008-S/2 – Camera with CU-2 control unit. Microsecond sweep ranges.
3. К008-S/3 – Camera with CU-3 control unit. Millisecond sweep ranges.
4. К008-S/1/2 – Camera with CU-1 and CU-2 control units. Nano- and microsecond sweep ranges.
5. К008-S/1/2/3 – Camera with CU-1 and CU-2/3 control units. Nano-, micro- and millisecond sweep ranges. CU-2/3 control unit combines functions of both CU-2 and CU-3.