Single Photoelectron Recording by an Image Intensifier TV Camera System
- 1 April 1971
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 10 (4), 829-837
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.10.000829
Abstract
A combination of a four-stage cascaded image intensifier and a plumbicon television camera system was used to record photoelectrons from faint images. The lens coupled system needs image intensifier gains of the order of 10(6) to overcome TV camera noise by single photoelectron scintillations. The properties of the system were evaluated with special emphasis on recording efficiency. The recorded pulse height distribution was analyzed, and it was shown that inefficiencies in the TV sampling process produce an exponential pulse height distribution.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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