High Speed Photography: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress on High Speed Photography, Imperial College, University of London, September 1974

Front Matter....Pages N1-16
Opening Address....Pages 17-20
Speech of Welcome....Pages 21-22
Picosecond Pulse Measurement and its Scientific Applications....Pages 23-31
Picosecond Image-Converter Diagnostics....Pages 32-40
New Laser High Speed Measurement Techniques in Aerodynamics....Pages 41-53
A Review of the Current State of the Art....Pages 54-60
Triggered Rotating Mirror Camera....Pages 61-64
Objectiv-Technique: A Method of Observing very Fast Events in Paraxial Direction to the Objective....Pages 65-71
Fast Electrodynamic Shutter System for a Six Frame Camera....Pages 72-77
Lenticular Plate Cameras for High Speed Stereoscopic Photography....Pages 78-82
A High Speed Mechanical Shutter Driven by a Gas Motor....Pages 83-88
Stereoscopic Strobing of Two High-Speed Cameras....Pages 89-94
USSR National Committee on High-Speed Photography and Cinematography....Pages 95-100
The LLL Compact 10-PS Streak Camera – 1974 Update....Pages 101-106
Synchroscan — A Technique for the Photography of Repetitive Picosecond Pulses....Pages 107-111
The Photochron II Streak Camera....Pages 112-117
Picosecond Chronography at X-Ray Wavelengths....Pages 118-123
Image Converters for Ultra-High Speed Photography....Pages 124-129
The Design of a New Electron Optics for a Picosecond Streak Camera....Pages 130-135
Image-Converter Streak Cameras with very High Gain....Pages 136-143
Application of Ultra-Fast High-Resolution Gated-Image Intensifiers to Laser Fusion Studies....Pages 144-149
Pockels Cell Shutter Operating in the 100 Picosecond Range — Applications to Ultra High Speed Interferometry....Pages 150-156
Ultra High Speed Framing Photographs of Laser Produced Plasmas Using a Picosecond Optical Shutter....Pages 157-162
The Microchannel Plates: A Survey of the Possibilities of Channel Multipliers Arrays in Nano and Picosecond Detection and Imaging....Pages 163-169
Improvement of the Performances of High Speed Cinematography Through the Use of a Proximity Focusing Microchannel Image Intensifier....Pages 170-177
A High-Aperture, High Gain System for Fast Recording under Low Light Level Conditions....Pages 178-183
A High Speed Video Recording System with Immediate Slow-Motion and Stop-Action Replay....Pages 184-189
Studies of Different Recording Systems Associated with a Picosecond Streak Camera....Pages 190-195
Ultra Fast X-Ray Streak Camera....Pages 196-201
Lupentechnik — Increase in Resolution of Optical Set Ups Using Image Converter Cameras....Pages 202-206
The Determination of Shuttering Efficiency of Gated Image Tubes....Pages 207-210
The Determination of the Properties of an Underwater Electrical Discharge Using High Speed Photography....Pages 211-217
The Application of Image Converter Cameras to the Investigation of Industrial Processes....Pages 218-222
A Universal Image Converter Recorder of LVE-2 Type....Pages 223-227
Photometric Measurements with an Image Converter Streak Camera....Pages 228-234
A Wide-Range Image-Converter Streak Camera for Quantum Electronics Studies....Pages 235-239
Interferometric Measurement of Three-Dimensional Dynamic Stress Distributions in Plates....Pages 240-245
Time Resolved Spectroscopy....Pages 246-246
Optical and Laser-Interferometric Investigations of an Electron-Beam Controlled CO 2 -Laser....Pages 247-252
Use of Holographic Interferometry for Quantitative Investigations of the Deformation of the Surface of a Material Impacted by a Projectile....Pages 253-258
Particle Velocity Measurements via High-Speed Holography....Pages 259-264
Three-Dimensional Visualization by High-Speed Holography of the Wake of a Projectile Launched at Mach 2....Pages 265-270
High-Speed Holography of Vibrating Objects and Rapid Events....Pages 271-276
Holography of High Speed Events Using a Train of Mode-Locked Pulses....Pages 277-282
Observational Techniques Related to Differential Interferometry....Pages 283-288
Microholography: Interferometric Investigation of Deformations of the Eardrum of Guinea Pigs Undergoing Transient Sound Effects....Pages 289-294
A Special Interference Hologram Camera for Quick Vibration Analysis of Drive Units and Car Bodies....Pages 295-300
Shadow and Interferometer Investigations of Low Density Gas Flow by Means of Reconstructing the Wave Front from a Hologram....Pages 301-306
Holographic Motion-Picture Interferometry of High-Speed Processes....Pages 307-312
Investigation of Stresswaves in Solids and Fluid-Solid Systems with a Real Time Shadow Optic Method and Digital Electronic Evaluation....Pages 313-318
Recording of Time Other Data on Film in High Speed Instrumentation Cameras....Pages 319-325
Universal High-Speed “Waiting” — Type Camera VSKF-4....Pages 326-329
A Multiple Spark System Incorporating Fibre Optics and an Electronic Timer for Projectile Photography....Pages 330-335
Coherence Effects on Holographic Interferometry....Pages 336-341
Spark Light Sources....Pages 342-347
Design of High Voltage High Frame Rate Cine Flash Radiography System....Pages 348-355
A Flash Tube for Ultraviolet with Less than 20 Nanosecond Rise Time....Pages 356-363
Xenon Flash Lamps of the Bulb Type....Pages 364-370
Chronicle 3 — A Confocal Multiflash....Pages 371-374
Recording of Schlieren Pictures for Flow Visualization in Rotating Machines....Pages 375-379
Schlieren and Interferometric Studies of T.E.A. CO 2 Laser Produced Plasmas....Pages 380-385
High-Speed Photography of Particle Tracers Behind Non-Planar Shocks....Pages 386-392
A Millisecond Scanning Spectrograph for ARC Investigations....Pages 393-397
Color Schlieren Photography of Short Duration Transient Events....Pages 398-403
Instrumentation and Techniques for a Direct Computer-Aided Analysis of Drop and Particle Systems....Pages 404-407
Numerical Determination of the Mass Attenuation Coefficient of an Object from a Series of Flash X-Ray Photographs....Pages 408-413
Image Recording and Processing System in the Field of Electronic High Speed Cinematography....Pages 414-419
Semiautomatic Evaluation of Locomotion Variables from Films Obtained by High-Speed Cinematography....Pages 420-425
Rapid Access in High-Speed Photography....Pages 426-433
The Application of High Speed Photographic Techniques at the Rotherham Works of the British Steel Corporation....Pages 434-436
Ultrafast Streak and Framing Technique for the Observation of Laser Driven Shock Waves in Transparent Solid Targets....Pages 437-441
High-Speed Photography of Liquid Jets....Pages 442-447
Application of High-Speed Photography to Explosives Research....Pages 448-454
The Fracture of Glass by Impact....Pages 455-461
Transient Stress Wave Visualisation by Holographic Interferometry....Pages 462-467
High-Speed Photographic Techniques for Small-Scale Explosive and Ballistic Studies....Pages 468-468
Study of Welding ARCs Using High-Speed Photographic and Optical Techniques....Pages 469-472
Application of Holographic Interferometry Methods to Investigation of the Flow in a Shock Tube Reflection Nozzle....Pages 473-481
Study of Shockwave-Induced Deformation in a Metal Bar by High-Speed Interferometry....Pages 482-488
Application of Scattering Holographic Interferometers in the Aeroballistic Experiment....Pages 489-491
Investigation of Electric Discharge Between Electrodes Using High-Speed Photography....Pages 492-494
A Simple Camera-System for Silhouette Photography of Projectiles in Flight, Under Day-Light Conditions....Pages 495-500
High-Speed Photographic and Holographic Studies of Burning Fuel Oil Droplets in Atomised Sprays....Pages 501-503
About the Production of Shock Waves by a Dielectric Spark Discharge in Liquids....Pages 504-510
Onset of Flame Oscillations and Their Suppression by Electric Fields....Pages 511-519
Devices and Methods of Interferometry in Ballistics....Pages 520-525
Luminous Subjects Photographed with Auxiliary Light....Pages 526-531
Schlieren Photography of Metallic Diaphragm Rupturing and Shock Formation Processes....Pages 532-538
Quantitative Schlieren Measurements of Boundary Layer Phenomena....Pages 539-545
Precision Measurements Using High-Speed Photographic Techniques....Pages 546-546
Correlation of Optical Diagnostic Techniques on Exploding Wire Plasmas....Pages 547-553
High-Speed Image-Converter X-Ray Studies....Pages 554-560
Picosecond X-Ray Streak Camera Studies....Pages 561-568
A High Speed Schlieren Study of Laser-Induced Flame Propagation in the Presence of Applied Electric Fields....Pages 569-573
Laser Pulse Diagnosis With a High Speed Streak Camera....Pages 574-579
Cinematography of Fireball Dynamics....Pages 580-584
Photonics: The Profile of a New Discipline....Pages 585-591
On New Elaborations in International Terminology of High-Speed Photography and Cinematography....Pages 592-593
Dictionary of High-Speed Cinematography....Pages 594-595
On the Measurement Accuracy in the Study of High-Speed Events with Large Information Entropy....Pages 596-598
The Concentration of the Flash Tube Radiation for the High-Speed Photography of Weakly Reflecting Objects....Pages 599-605
Kinematics of a Sugar-Beet Topping Mechanism....Pages 606-611
High-Speed Photography of a ‘Switch-On’ Collisionless Shock....Pages 612-615
Manyframe High Speed Schlieren Photography of Shock Waves in a Ruby Laser Beam....Pages 616-620
Nondestructive Testing by Laser Measuring Techniques....Pages 621-629
Development of a Dye-Laser for Illumination in High-Speed Cinematography....Pages 630-634
Back Matter....Pages 635-651