GOI Gated Optical Imager (and related products) HRI High Rate Imager SLIX Stripline Imager for x-rays XRSC X-ray Streak Camera.
The GOI and the SLIX systems are full imaging devices that can
take short exposure pictures of optical or soft x-ray sources,
respectively. They use different techniques to obtain the short
exposure but have in common the fact that the photons from the
source are converted into electrons at a photocathode with little
loss of spatial or temporal information. The electrons are then
manipulated electronically before being converted into optical
photons in a phosphor. The image on the phosphor retains the
spatial information but only a small time slice of the temporal
history of the source is selected. In this way a short exposure
of the source is obtained. To acquire full temporal information
many such exposures must be taken.
In the X-ray streak camera, one spatial dimension is discarded and this dimension in the image is used to record the temporal history of the source. One acquires an image that has intensity information as a function of time and one spatial dimension in the source, ie. only a slice of the source is used. The streak camera is also an image convertor camera in that the soft x-ray photons are converted to electrons, manipulated and then converted back to photons for recording.
Kentech also manufactures pulse generators and power supplies for other slower applications using both these systems and also for Generation 3 image intensifiers.