Digital synchroballistic schlieren camera for high-speed photography of bullets and rocket sleds

Ben Buckner; Drew M. L'Esperance

doi:10.1117/1.OE.52.8.083105

8 August 2013 Digital synchroballistic schlieren camera for high-speed photography of bullets and rocket sleds

Ben Buckner, Drew M. L'Esperance

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, Issue 8, 083105 (August 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.8.083105

Abstract

A high-speed digital streak camera designed for simultaneous high-resolution color photography and focusing schlieren imaging is described. The camera uses a computer-controlled galvanometer scanner to achieve synchroballistic imaging through a narrow slit. Full color 20 megapixel images of a rocket sled moving at 480 m/s and of projectiles fired at around 400 m/s were captured, with high-resolution schlieren imaging in the latter cases, using conventional photographic flash illumination. The streak camera can achieve a line rate for streak imaging of up to 2.4 million lines/s .

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Ben Buckner and Drew M. L'Esperance "Digital synchroballistic schlieren camera for high-speed photography of bullets and rocket sleds," Optical Engineering 52(8), 083105 (8 August 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.8.083105

Published: 8 August 2013

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