The possibility of stable generation of intense characteristic Cs radiation upon electronic excitation of a Mo anode target heat treated in Cs and O2 vapors is demonstrated. The radiation source is a microfocus transmission type X-ray tube with a beryllium window and an S20 photocathode. A Cs-Mo-O layer is formed on the initial target in the form of a 1-µm-thick Mo film during heat treatment. The L and K spectral series are measured in an anode—cathode voltage range of 10—47 kV. A stable generation mode is observed at an electron flux power density up to 600 W/cm2. The energy of the Cs Kβ spectral line is in the region of photoabsorption peaks of the I and Xe atoms, which are widely used in the composition of contrast agents for medical diagnostics. This allows obtaining two- and three-dimensional images with the maximum contrast.

A dual-slit dissector operating in the crossed-sweep mode with a picosecond time resolution has been created on the basis of the PIF-01 image converter tube. The dissector is applicable to synchrotron radiation sources and electron-positron colliders when it is necessary to simultaneously record longitudinal profiles of multi-bunch beams that fill two to several hundred adjacent separatrices of an accelerator ring. Two trains of light pulses shifted in time with respect to each other have been recorded with a time resolution of 6.0 ± 0.5 ps during the dynamic tests of the developed dissector with a laser system.

A new-generation dissector has developed on the basis of a modified PIF-01 image converter tube for the timing diagnostics of charged particle beams in accelerators. Pilot models of the detector have been produced. The time resolution obtained in the dynamic tests at the laser facility is ~2 ps, which is better by more than an order of magnitude than the corresponding parameter of the available LI-602 dissector. The pilot models of the new dissector have been successfully tested in experiments at the Metrology Light Source (MLS) accelerator (Berlin, Germany).

A procedure is described for determining the basic parameters of linear-sweep electron-optical cameras. The techniques are considered for measuring the limiting temporal resolution and dynamic range of the PS-1/S1 camera using a femtosecond laser and sinusoidal-modulated laser radiation.

This paper describes the selection of deaccelerating films made of aluminum of various thicknesses (300–500 nm) and intended for deacceleration of electrons (with an energy of tens of kiloelectron volts to tens of electron volts) in the developed new generation picosecond dissectors. The designed dissectors should be different by a higher temporal resolution as compared to the maximum reached (~20 ps) in LI-602 dissecting image-tube converters used for diagnosing synchrotron radiation. This paper also presents the results of comparative measurements of emission characteristics of manufactured films in the models of image-tube converters similar in design to a PIF-01/S1 device, which is the basis of the developed dissectors and which provides the maximum temporal resolution of up to 1 ps in the streak mode with the streak speed of ~1010 cm/s. It is established that, when the energy of the incident electron beam equals 10 to 12 keV, the optimum thickness of the deaccelerating aluminum film is 400 nm with the effective secondary emission coefficient equal to 0.7.