Upgrading optical information of rotating mirror cameras

To date, rotating mirror (RM) cameras still serve as indispensable imaging equipment for the diagnosis of microsecond transient processes due to their excellent characteristics. This paper, for upgrading the optical information capacity of the cameras, presents the new optical acceleration principle to increase the framing frequency or scanning velocity, the new design theory without principle errors instead of the classical theories with some flaws in principle to have applied to design our simultaneous streak and framing rotating mirror camera with continuous access, and the new rotating mirror with novel structure, made of an aluminum alloy, to have considerably reduced lateral deformation of the RM and improved the performance of the camera.