Photoelectronic Imaging Devices

The past decade has seen a major resurgence in optics research and the teaching of optics throughout the major universities both in this country and abroad. Electrooptical devices have become a challenging form of study that has penetrated both the electrical engineering and the physics departments of most major schools. There seems to be something challeng­ ing about a laser that appeals to both the practical electrical engineer with a hankering for fundamental research and to the fundamental physicist with a hankering to be practical. Somehow or other this same form of enthusiasm has not previously existed in the study of photoelectronic devices that form images. This field of, endeavor is becoming more and more so­ phisticated as newer forms of solid state devices enter the field not only in the data processing end but in the conversion of radiant energy into electrical charge patterns that are stored, manipulated, and read out in a way that a decade ago would have been considered beyond some fundamental limit or other. It is unfortunate, however, that this kind of material has heretofore been learned only by the process of becoming an apprentice in one or more of the major development laboratories concerned with the manufacture of image intensifiers or television tubes or the production of systems employing these devices.

Principal Sensor Parameters and Thier Measurement.- The Television Camera Tube as a System Component.- Evaluation of Direct-View Imaging Devices.- Evaluation of Signal-Generating Image Tubes.- Image Intensifiers, Converters, and Direct-Viewing Devices.- Cascade Image Intensifiers.- Photoelectric Image Intensifiers.- X-Ray Image Intensifiers.- The Channel Image Intensifier.- Signal-Generating Image Tubes.- The Image Orthicon.- The New Image Isocon - Its Performance Compared to the Image Orthicon.- Camera Tubes Employing High-Gain Electron-Imaging Charge-Storage Targets.- Early Stages in the Development of Camera Tubes Employing the Silicon-Diode Array as an Electron-Imaging Charge-Storage Target.- to the Vidicon Family of Tubes.- The Plumbicon®.- The Silicon-Diode-Array Camera Tube.- Electron Optics and Signal Readout of High-Definition Return-Beam Vidicon Cameras.- Theory of Operation and Performance of High-Resolution Return-Beam Vidicon Cameras-A Comparison with High-Resolution Photography.- The High-Resolution Return-Beam Vidicon with Electrical Input.- Multielement Self-Scanned Mosaic Sensors.- Special Sensors.- Special Sensors.- The Spectracon.- Evaluation.- Television Camera Tube Performance Data and Calculations.