Improvement of Temporal Uniformity of Pulse-Dilation Framing Camera Using Pulse Superposition Technique

Siqi Wu; Yanli Bai; Haiying Gao; Rongbin Yao; Dajian Liu

doi:10.3788/AOS221488

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