High Speed Photography

Invited Paper I.- Opening Address.- Speech of Welcome.- Picosecond pulse measurement and its scientific applications.- Invited Paper II.- Picosecond image converter diagnostics.- Invited Paper III.- New laser high-speed measurement techniques in aerodynamics (in German).- Invited Paper IV.- A review of the current state of the art.- Session A1 - High-Speed and Ultra High-Speed Cameras.- Triggered rotating mirror camera.- Objective-technique: a method of observing very fast events in paraxial direction to the objective (in German).- Fast electrodynamic shutter system for a six-frame camera.- Lenticular camera for high-speed stereoscopic photography.- Session B6 - High-Speed Cameras.- A high-speed mechanical shutter driven by a gas motor.- Stereoscopic strobing of two high-speed cameras.- Image distortions arising in high-speed photography (in German).- Sessions A2 and A3 - Electro-Optical Cameras and Shutters.- The LLL compact, 10-psec streak camera - 1974 update.- Synchroscan - a technique for the photography of repetitive picosecond pulses.- The Photochron II streak camera.- Picosecond chronography at X-ray wavelengths.- Image converters for ultra-high-speed photography.- The design of a new electron optics for a picosecond streak camera.- Very high gain image tube operated in the streak mode (in French).- Application of ultra-fast high-resolution gated-image intensifiers to laser fusion studies.- Pockels cell shutter operating in the 100 picosecond range - applications to ultra high-speed interferometry.- Ultra high-speed framing photographs of laser produced plasmas using a picosecond optical shutter.- The microchannel plates: a survey of the possibilities of channel multiplier arrays in nano and picosecond detection and imaging.- Session A4 - Electro-Optical Cameras and Shutters.- Improvement of the performances of high-speed cinematography through the use of a proximity focusing microchannel image intensifier.- A high-aperture, high-gain system for fast recording under low light level conditions.- A high-speed video recording system with immediate slow-motion and stop-action replay.- Studies of different recording systems associated with a pico second streak camera.- Sessions B9 and B10 - Electro-Optical Cameras.- Ultra fast x-ray streak camera.- Lupentechnik - increase in resolution of optical set ups using image converter cameras.- The determination of shuttering efficiency of gated image tubes.- The determination of the properties of an underwater electrical discharge using high-speed photography.- The application of image converter cameras to the investigation of industrial processes.- A universal image converter recorder of LVE-2 type.- Photometric measurements with an image converter streak camera.- A wide-range image-converter streak camera for quantum electronics.- Sessions A5, A6 and A7 - Holography and Interferometry.- Interferometric measurement of three-dimensional dynamic stress distribution in plates (In German).- Time-resolved spectroscopy.- Optical and laser-interferometric investigations of an electron beam controlled CO2 laser (in German).- Use of holographic interferometry for quantitative investigations of the deformation of the surface of a material impacted by a projectile (in French).- Particle velocity measurements via high-speed holography (in French).- Three-dimensional visualisation by high-speed holography of the wake of a projectile launched at Mach 2 (in French).- High-speed holography of vibrating objects and rapid events.- Holography of high-speed events using a train of mode-locked pulses.- Observational techniques related to differential interferometry.- Microholography: interferometric investigation of deformations of the eardrum of guinea pigs undergoing transient sound effects (In French).- A special interference hologram camera for quick vibration analysis of drive units and car bodies.- Shadow and interferometer investigations of low density gas flow by means of reconstructing a light wave front from a hologram.- Session B11 - Holography and Analysis.- Holographic cine interferometry of high-speed events.- Investigations of stress waves in solids and fluid-solid systems with a real-time shadow optic method and digital electronic evaluation (In German).- Recording of time and other data on film in high-speed instrumentation cameras.- Universal high-speed 'waiting' type camera BC?K4.- Session A8 - Laser and Plasma Sources.- A multiple spark system incorporating fibre optics and an electronic timer for projectile photography.- Coherence effects on holographic interferonstry.- Spark light sources.- Session A11 - Continuous, Flash and X-Ray Sources.- Design of high voltage high frame rate cine flash radiography system.- A flash tube for ultraviolet with less than 20 nanosecond rise time.- Xenon flash lamps of the bulb type.- Chronolite 3 - a confocal multiflash.- Sessions A9 and A10 - Schlieren, Shadowgraph, Microscopy, Steroescopy and Time-Resolved Spectroscopy.- Recording of schlieren pictures for flow visualization in rotating machines.- Schlieren and interferonmetric studies of T.E.A. CO2 laser produced plasmas.- High-speed photography of particle tracers behind non-planar shocks.- A millisecond scanning spectrograph for arc investigations.- Color schlieren photography of short duration transient events.- Session A12 - Data Reduction and Image Analysis.- Instrumentation and techniques for a direct computer-aided analysis of drop and particle systems.- Numerical determination of the mass attenuation coefficient of an object from a series of flash X-ray photographs (in French).- Image recording and processing system in the field of electronic high-speed cinematography.- Semi automatic evaluation of locomotion variables from films obtained by high-speed cinematography.- Rapid access in high-speed photography.- Sessions A13, A14, A15, A16 and B12 - Applications.- The application of high-speed photographic techniques at the Rotherham works of the British Steel Corporation.- Ultrafast streak and framing technique for the observation of laser driven shock waves in transparent solid targets.- High-speed photography of liquid jets.- Application of high-speed photography to explosives research.- The fracture of glass by impact.- Transient stress wave visualisation by holographic interferometry.- High-speed photographic techniques for small-scale explosive and ballistic studies.- Study of welding arcs using high-speed photographic and optical techniques.- Application of holographic interferometry methods to investigation of the flow in a shock tube reflection nozzle.- Study of shockwave-induced deformation in a metal bar by high-speed interferometry.- Application of scattering holographic interferometers in the aeroballistic experiment.- Investigation of electric discharge between electrodes using high-speed photography.- A simple camera-system for silhouette photography of projectiles in flight under daylight conditions.- High-speed photographic and holographic studies of burning fuel oil droplets in atomised sprays.- About the production of shock waves by a dielectric spark discharge in liquids.- Onset of flame oscillations and their suppression by electric fields.- Session B7 - Visualization Techniques.- Devices and methods of interferometry in ballistics.- Luminous subjects photographed with auxiliary light.- Schlieren photography of metallic diaphragm rupturing and shock formation processes.- Quantitative schlieren measurements of boundary layer phenomena.- Precision measurements using high-speed photographic techniques.- Sessions B13 and B14 - Late Papers.- Correlation of optical diagnostic techniques on exploding wire plasmas.- High-speed image converter X-ray studies.- Picosecond X-ray streak camera studies.- A high-speed schlieren study of laser-induced flame propagation in the presence of applied electric fields.- Laser pulse diagnosis with a high-speed streak camera (In French).- Cinematography of fireball dynamics.- Sessions B4 and B5 - Terminology.- Photonics: The profile of a new discipline.- On new elaborations in international terminology of high-speed photography and cinematography.- Dictionary of high-speed cinematography (in French).- Papers supplied by authors but not presented at the Congress.- On the measurement accuracy in the study of high-speed events with large information entropy.- The concentration of the flash tube radiation for the high-speed photography of weakly reflecting objects.- Kinematics of a sugar-beet topping mechanism.- High-speed photography of a 'switch-on' collisionless shock wave.- Manyframe high-speed schlieren photography of shock waves in a ruby laser beam.- Laser techniques in non-destructive testing (in German).- Development of a dye laser for lighting in ultra rapid cinematography (in French).- Author Index.