Microchannel plate streak camera
Abstract
An improved streak camera in which a microchannel plate electron multiplier is used in place of or in combination with the photocathode used in prior streak cameras is developed. The improved streak camera is far more sensitive to photons (UV to gamma rays) than the conventional X-ray streak camera which uses a photocathode. The improved streak camera offers gamma ray detection with high temporal resolution. It also offers low energy X-ray detection without attenuation inside the cathode. Using the microchannel plate in the improved camera has resulted in a time resolution of about 150 ps, and has provided a sensitivity sufficient for 1000 keV X-rays.
- Publication:
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Patent Application Department of Energy
- Pub Date:
- September 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984doe..reptQ....W
- Keywords:
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- Microchannel Plates;
- Photocathodes;
- Photomultiplier Tubes;
- Streak Cameras;
- Gamma Rays;
- Image Resolution;
- Laser Fusion;
- Patent Applications;
- Patent Policy;
- Photons;
- Radiation Measurement;
- Temporal Resolution;
- X Rays;
- Instrumentation and Photography