High-speed photographic system for objects with highly radiant backgrounds

Kannan Krishnaswami; Michael M. Tilleman; Samuel SeungWook Choi; Sergei G. Krivoshlykov

doi:10.1117/12.271620

4 April 1997 High-speed photographic system for objects with highly radiant backgrounds

Kannan Krishnaswami, Michael M. Tilleman, Samuel SeungWook Choi, Sergei G. Krivoshlykov

Proceedings Volume 3018, Color Imaging: Device-Independent Color, Color Hard Copy, and Graphic Arts II; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271620
Event: Electronic Imaging '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We are currently developing a high-speed photographic system that images objects engulfed in high radiance backgrounds. Using a copper vapor laser as a pulsed illuminator in conjunction with a narrow band interference filter and an electro-optic shutter as spectral and temporal filters respectively, the background radiance is diminished by eight orders of magnitude. Consequently, the back-scattered imaging photons from the laser overpower the radiant background, resulting in a sufficiently high imaging-to- background ratio. Such high levels of background discrimination is made possible by the copper vapor laser that illuminates within a spectral line of 7 GHz with great intensity centered on the 1 nm vapor laser that illuminates within a spectral line of 7 GHz with great intensity centered on the 1 nm wide transmission band of the interference filter. The laser emits 30 ns pulses with a repetition rate of 20 kHz, synchronized with an equivalent open aperture period of the electro-optic shutter. The image is captured by an electronic camera at the rate of 20,000 per second. The image is available for further digital image processing.

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Kannan Krishnaswami, Michael M. Tilleman, Samuel SeungWook Choi, and Sergei G. Krivoshlykov "High-speed photographic system for objects with highly radiant backgrounds", Proc. SPIE 3018, Color Imaging: Device-Independent Color, Color Hard Copy, and Graphic Arts II, (4 April 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271620

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