Improvements in off-center focusing in an x-ray streak camera

Joseph W. McDonald; Franz Weber; Roger Lee Griffith; Joe P. Holder; Perry M. Bell

doi:10.1117/12.507020

28 January 2004 Improvements in off-center focusing in an x-ray streak camera

Joseph W. McDonald, Franz Weber, Roger Lee Griffith, Joe P. Holder, Perry M. Bell

Proceedings Volume 5194, Fourth-Generation X-Ray Sources and Ultrafast X-Ray Detectors; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.507020
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Due to the planar construction of present x-ray streak tubes significant off-center defocusing is observed in both static and dynamic images taken with one-dimensional resolution slits. Based on the streak tube geometry curved photocathodes with radii of curvature ranging from 3.5 to 18 inches have been fabricated. We report initial off-center focusing performance data on the evaluation of these "improved" photocathodes in an X-ray streak camera and an update on the theoretical simulations to predict the optimum cathode curvature.

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Joseph W. McDonald, Franz Weber, Roger Lee Griffith, Joe P. Holder, and Perry M. Bell "Improvements in off-center focusing in an x-ray streak camera", Proc. SPIE 5194, Fourth-Generation X-Ray Sources and Ultrafast X-Ray Detectors, (28 January 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.507020

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