Development of Streak Camera system

时间分辨发射光谱是学术研究中常用的工具。最简单的计时工具 解析发射是通过时间相关单光子计数（TCSPC）。TCSPC系统无处不在， 化学系。相比之下，条纹相机（SC）系统可以提供更好的性能， TCSPC虽然增加了成本和复杂性。本提案的目的是协助Axis Photonique 开发他们的条纹相机系统，以更好地适应更广泛的商业应用。 条纹相机是一种探测器，当与光谱仪配合时，可以测量时间 解析发射，时间分辨率为10 ps。Axis Photonique的系统甚至可以在 平均模式下的分辨率为1 ps-业界最佳。相比之下，TCSPC的时间分辨率为100 ps 典型的。Streak Camera系统的最大供应商是日本的Hamamatsu。滨松系统的成本 比Axis Photonique的同等系统多10万美元。滨松的市场存在感 向非专业人士销售功能齐全的产品。此外，滨松的产品知名度 系统，显示其适用于各种各样的应用。等效系统从较小的 Axis Photonique需要用户进行工程设计工作，并且更多地被视为一种开发 关系此外，安讯士系统还没有在同样广泛的应用中得到验证。 在这里，我们将为安讯士Photonique提供工程解决方案，并对其性能进行验证，以便 以进一步指导工程发展。这些发展的最终目的是增加市场 蒙特利尔Axis Photonique的知名度和市场空间，使其成为全球光谱供应商 为各种各样的研究人员提供解决方案。

Time resolved emission spectroscopy is a commonly used tool in academic research. The simplest tool to time resolve emission is by Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC). TCSPC systems are ubiquitous in Chemistry Departments. In contrast Streak Camera (SC) systems can offer much better performance that TCSPC albeit with added cost and complexity. The objective of this proposal is to assist Axis Photonique in developing their Streak Camera system to better suit wider commercial adoption. The Streak Camera is a type of detector that when mated to a spectrometer can enable measurement of time resolved emission with a time resolution of 10 ps. The system from Axis Photonique can even have time resolution of 1 ps in averaging mode - the best in the industry. In contrast TCSPC has time resolution of 100 ps typically. The largest vendor of Streak Camera systems is Hamamatsu in Japan. The Hamamatsu system costs $100,000 more than the equivalent system from Axis Photonique. The market presence of Hamamatsu arises from it selling a fully functional product for the non-expert. And moreover the product visibility of Hamamatsu systems that shows its suitability for a wide variety of applications. The equivalent system from the smaller Axis Photonique requires engineering work on the part of the users, and is taken as more of a development relationship. Moreover the Axis system has not been validated on an equally wide array of applications. Here we will provide engineering solutions to Axis Photonique as well as validation of their performance so as to further guide engineering developments. These developments have the ultimate aim of increasing the market visibility and market space of Montreal's Axis Photonique to enable it to be a global supplier of spectroscopy solutions to a wide variety of researchers.