RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF A CAMERA TUBE FOR NIGHT VIEWING.

Abstract

The report describes the complete results on a camera tube designed for low light level applications. This tube has been called the Image-Intensifier Vidicon; in reality it is an SEC (secondary-electron-conduction) vidicon with two TSE (transmission-secondary-emission) dynodes for prebeam multiplication. The SEC target replaced the EBIC (electron-bombardment-induced-conductivity) target that had been used in the previous contract. Ten tubes were completed under the present contract, of which 7 were successfully tested. Measured pre-beam gains for these tubes have been in excess of 4000. As a camera tube, these tubes demonstrated the advantages of the SEC vidicon: non-blooming vidicon-type scan; high target storage capacitance; good picture quality at low light levels; and rapid signal readout in one frame. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 03, 1964
Accession Number
AD0615748

Entities

People

  • G. A. Klotzbaugh

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blooming
  • Camera Tubes
  • Capacitance
  • Conductivity
  • Contracts
  • Electron Emission
  • Electrons
  • Emission
  • Low Light Levels
  • Secondary Emission

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems