Readout and processing devices for picosecond streak cameras

The use of streak cameras in laboratories working on Laser Fusion is still too often limited by the long procedure required for film processing before delivering an useful diagnostic. Here we present different ways (vacuum low level TV tube, linear solid state array of photodiodes) developed in our laboratory to readout the images of streak cameras. They provide time resolution in the 10 ps range, with one to 32 spatial channels and may be interfaced with the computer data acquisition system now used in Limeil