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High Speed Photography-Proceedings ofthe Eleventh International Congress onHigh Speed Photography 1974R.W. SmithPublished online: 16 Nov 2010.

To cite this article: R.W. Smith (1976) High Speed Photography-Proceedings of the EleventhInternational Congress on High Speed Photography 1974, Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics,23:10, 846-846, DOI: 10.1080/713819155

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Subsequent chapters describe iris diaphragms, shutter design, and specialist productionprocesses, such as thread chasing, cam milling, diamond turning and engraving . Thelatter part of the book covers various metal finishing processes, injection moulding, as-sembly and testing. Here again insufficient attention is given to important aspects suchas cell design and centring systems whilst there is a lot of descriptive information (mainlyobtained from commercial literature) on the various ancillary processes .

In general the book lacks form and this makes it very difficult to extract useful in-formation quickly . It also appears to contain too much general information for someonenew to the field but is not sufficiently detailed to be useful to an experienced lens mechanismdesigner.

J. ANDREWS

High Speed Photography-Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress on High SpeedPhotography 1974 . Edited by P . J . ROLLS . (London: Chapman & Hall, 1975 .)[Pp. 651 .] Price £15 .00 .

THIS volume constitutes the Proceedings of the Congress on High Speed Photographywhich was held at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, in September1974 . It contains lithographed reproductions of the authors manuscripts of the 93 paperswhich were given at the meeting together with a record of the discussion. Also includedare seven extra papers which were not presented at the meeting and four invited papers .

The invited papers were by D . J. Bradley on picosecond pulse measurements, M . Ya .Schelev on picosecond image converter diagnostics, R . Schall on new laser techniques inaerodynamics, and J . Hadland who gave a review of the current state of the art in instrumen-tation .

The contributed papers are conveniently divided into sections according to the or-ganization of the sessions of the meeting. These are high-speed and ultra-high-speedcameras (7 papers), electro-optical cameras and shutters (26 papers), holography andinterferometry (11 papers), laser and flash sources (7 papers), Schlieren and similar tech-niques (5 papers), data reduction and image analysis (8 papers), terminology (3 papers)and a wide range of applications .

It is clear from the distribution of papers that one of the main growth points in the sub-ject is the development and use of electro-optical techniques with time revolution measuredin picoseconds or smaller . Many of the papers dealt with streak cameras for this purpose .

As exposure times get shorter the events studied become further removed from everydayexperience and consequently this volume contains few photographs of events whichmight be of interest to the general reader. However, the volume is a useful source ofinformation on up-to-date techniques and examples of their application . Its value isgreatly enhanced by the excellent subject index, author index, and its very clearly-set-outlist of contents . The subject index makes this volume vastly superior to similar butindex-lacking Conference Proceedings .

R. W. SMITH

Laser Spectroscopy . Edited by S . HAROCHE, J. C . PEBAY-PEYROULA, T . W. HANSCH andS. E . HARRIS . Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference, Meg6ve, France .[Pp. x+468 .] Price (soft cover) DM45 ($18 . 50) .

THE value of published Conference Proceedings has a roughly inverse dependence on thetime taken to complete the printing after the Conference . In this report Springer-Verlagdid an excellent job in producing this report in less than 4 months after the Laser Spectro-scopy Conference held at Megeve . As Volume 43 of the series ` Lecture Notes in Physics 'it presents the invited papers given at the meeting and provides an up-to-date overview ofthis rapidly expanding field .

The papers fall into three main categories : new developments in tunable lasers fromthe V.U.V. to the I .R . ; spectroscopic applications to atoms and molecules including highresolution and non-linear techniques ; photochemistry and isotope separation . Abstractsof several post-deadline papers are also included giving information on the most recenttrends in these fields .

The style of presentation varies considerably since the papers have been printed photo-graphically from the authors' originals . However, not too much has been sacrificed forthe sake of speedy publication ; the photographs, diagrams and type are all clearly re-

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