Image-converter tubes for lasers and lasers for image-converter tubes (operating experience of the Photoelectronics Department, GPI, RAS)

Work in the field of electron-optical diagnostics of laser-induced rapid processes performed for almost half a century at the Photoelectronics Department at the General Physics Institute, RAS, is summed up. New femtosecond image-converter tubes have been developed, which provide the time resolution no worse than 100 fs in the slit scan (streak) regime, and photoelectron guns have been built for time-resolved studies of electron diffraction. The results of recent studies on manifold (up to fifty-fold) compression of picosecond electron bunches in nonstationary focusing fields are demonstrated. (special issue devoted to the 25th anniversary of the a.m. prokhorov general physics institute)