Article | REF: E6570 V1

Low-light imaging - Fundamentals and perspectives

Author: Thierry MIDAVAINE

Publication date: July 10, 2012

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!


Français

6. Alternative detection technologies

There are numerous technologies on the market or under development in industry and laboratories, which can be classified into four different groups. They are all based on the photoelectric effect: either the external photoelectric effect using photocathodes in the first two groups, or the internal photoelectric effect based on a semiconductor: silicon for the third group, or lower-gap semiconductors for the fourth group, in order to be sensitive in band 1.

6.1 Image intensifier tubes

This technology is the first group of low-light level imagers. Image intensifiers are also known as light intensifiers (LI) or brightness enhancers. It is the subject of chapters in the references

You do not have access to this resource.

Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!


The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference

A Comprehensive Knowledge Base, with over 1,200 authors and 100 scientific advisors
+ More than 10,000 articles and 1,000 how-to sheets, over 800 new or updated articles every year
From design to prototyping, right through to industrialization, the reference for securing the development of your industrial projects

This article is included in

Optics and photonics

This offer includes:

Knowledge Base

Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees

Services

A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources

Practical Path

Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills

Doc & Quiz

Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading

Subscribe now!

Ongoing reading
Alternative detection technologies