Quick Shot

The streak camera upgrade for the streaked optical pyrometer (SOP) system has been completed. Located in the OMEGA target bay, the SOP cabinet houses the Rochester Optical Streak System (ROSS) shown in its base. The SOP detects self-emission from materials that are compressed by laser-driven shocks and is used to infer temperatures of compressed samples under study. Initial experiments indicate that use of the ROSS provided a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the previous system.