Jean-Paul Fabre, Sergei Vasilievic Golovkin, Alexandre Eugenevich Kushnirenko, Andrei Michailovi Medvedkov, Eugene Nikolaevic Kozarenko, Igor Eugenivich Kreslo, Arkadi G. Berkovski, Yuri Ivanovich Gubanov, Galina Nikolaevna Kislizkaya, et al.
Proceedings Volume Ultrahigh- and High-Speed Photography, Videography, and Photonics '95, (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.218319
We present the results obtained with a prototype of a high speed gateable Vacuum Image Pipeline (VIP) for selection of non-repetitive images from a continuous stream. It allows snapshots with a very short exposure time (of the order of 10 nanoseconds) to be accepted (or rejected) after a decision time of a few microseconds. The VIP is a vacuum tube equipped with a photocathode, a system of metallic grids and a phosphor screen. Photoelectrons produced by the images focused on the photocathode are guided by a uniform magnetic field parallel to the tube axis. By acting on the grid potentials, the drift time of the photoelectrons inside the tube can be adjusted between 0.3 and 2 microseconds. An image among many others can then be selected by an external trigger with a time resolution between 4 and 30 ns depending on the delay time. The selected photoelectrons are finally accelerated by a high potential (+15 kV) onto the phosphor screen where they reproduce the triggered image. A spatial resolution of 33 lp/mm at a magnetic field of 0.1 T has been measured. The VIP is a useful tool for high energy physics and astrophysics experiments as well as in high speed photography.