A simple, inexpensive diagnostic has been developed for timehyphen;resolved imaging of repetitive selfhyphen;luminescent phenomena. An electrohyphen;optic birefringent ceramic shutter is employed to perform photographic sampling and has demonstrated time resolution of 60 mgr;s. Photographic film was used for image detection in this system, and methods of image enhancement in the presence of background light from a finitehyphen;contrast shutter are discussed. The system has been applied to the study of plasma evolution in the CDX plasma confinement device.
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