The Pizzicato demonstrates unparalleled pulse duration stability and low jitter capabilities :
- Pulse duration on 100 accumulated shots: 31ps FWHM
- Pulse duration stability: 3% rms* (* limited by photocathode's noise)
- Jitter on 100 accumulated shots wrt end-user triggering signal: +/- 43ps rms

Streak cameras are typically used to temporally measure ultra-fast optical signals and combined with spectrometers in time resolved spectroscopy systems.
The image of a slit is swept at high speed over a screen. Assuming a constant and precisely defined sweep speed, the screen position can be related to a temporal information. This principle converts the intensity information along the slit into an intensity information along the screen.
Streak tubes used are vacuum tubes with similar configuration as first generation image intensifiers. Main elements are a photocathode to convert the luminous flux into an electron flux, focusing electrodes and a phoshor screen to re-convert the electron flux into a luminous signal. The particular elements separating a streak tube from the simple image intensifier are additional deflection plates allowing to precisely sweep the image over the screen.
Optronis GmbH (www.optronis.com) has been a major streak camera manufacturer for more than 20 years.