Ultrafast continuous imaging apparatus
AssigneeHamamatsu Photonics K.K.
InventorsMusubu Koishi, Yoshihiko Mizushima, Hirofumi Kan
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Abstract
An apparatus continous imaging apparatus comprising a camera portion and an image receiving portion, Specifically, the image pickup portion comprises an image pickup tube that deflects and scans electron beams and allows electron signals correponding to one pixel or a one-dimensional array of pixels to be converted successively and continuously to time-series light signals. The image receiving portion comprises means that converts to electron beams the time-series light signals transmitted from the pickup tube through at least one optical fiber and which reproduces an image by deflecting the electron beams in synchronism with the camera portion.
Claims6
An ultrafast continuous imaging apparatus comprising:
- image pickup means for converting light from an object to first electron beams, deflecting said first electron beams to produce electron signals corresponding to pixel groups each comprising at least one pixel and successively and continuously converting said electron signals to time-series light signals, and
- image receiving means for converting said time-series light signals to second electron beams, deflecting said second electron beams in synchronism with said image pickup means and converting said deflected second elelectron beams to a reproduced image.
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