Observation of hard X-ray pulses with a highly sensitive streak camera

We have developed a highly sensitive X-ray streak camera system, which synchronously operates with the RF signal of the SPring-8 storage ring. The streak camera was installed at an undulator beamline of SPring-8, and the beam loading effect for various electron bunch structures (filling pattern) has been observed. The camera has also been operated as a timing monitor for a synchronization system of synchrotron radiation and a Ti:sapphire laser. The highly sensitive X-ray streak camera system can be used not only as an accelerator diagnosis, but also as a fast temporal detector for beamline applications, such as the observation of fast temporal transitions of diffraction images and relaxation process.