Mende S B
Appl Opt. 1971 Apr 1;10(4):829-37. doi: 10.1364/AO.10.000829.
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.
采用四级级联像增强器和氧化铅光导电视摄像系统的组合来记录微弱图像中的光电子。透镜耦合系统需要10⁶ 量级的像增强器增益，以便通过单光电子闪烁克服电视摄像机噪声。对该系统的性能进行了评估，特别强调了记录效率。分析了记录的脉冲高度分布，结果表明电视采样过程中的低效会产生指数型脉冲高度分布。
