Development of streak cameras for time-resolved experiments at the advanced laser light source laboratory

The Advanced Laser light Source (ALLS) infrastructure is a new state-of-the-art multi-beams femtosecond laser facility currently in operation at INRS near Montreal, Canada. Multi-beams experiments and pump-probe geometry lead to the need of synchronization instrumentation tools. The use of a wide range of energy radiation from hard x-ray up to infrared light on the ultrafast time scale requires the development of ultrafast detector diagnostics tools to study the emission spectrum of these sources. To fulfill these requirements, new streak cameras have been developed for ALLS facility. The SV streak camera is a simple and compact multi-purpose instrument that will be used for beams synchronization with picosecond time resolution and good spatial resolution. The FXR streak camera is dedicated to x-ray spectroscopy with sub-picosecond time resolution combined with a very high spatial resolution.