Abstract:
A photocathode substrate includes a plurality of prisms to refract radiation before it impinges upon a photocathode material. The refraction causes most of the radiation to meet the photocathode material at an angle other than 90* so that internal reflection of the energy within the photocathode material occurs. This greatly enhances the probability of electrons being released from the photocathode material.
Abstract:
A method of forming an array from a bundle of individual channel multipliers, the individual channels being fabricated of a lower temperature softening glass tube to permit the walls of the individual channels to be spiralled and also expanded to fill the interstices within a higher softening temperature outer tube, Also, the invention could be practiced utilizing glass tubes of the same temperature softening characteristic. The expanding and spiralling operation is preformed simultaneously by drawing the bundle of individual channels through a furnace while rotating the feed or pull assemblies of the drawing apparatus to spiral the channel bundle and exhausting the area between the individual tubes and the equal or higher temperature softening glass tube to expand the individual channels.