Abstract:
A nuclear radiation monitoring device wherein a detector and a remote source and measuring device are coupled by a single coaxial cable via a resistor. The detector includes a GeigerMuller counter tube, a low-to-high D.C. voltage converter, a pulse shaper and a monostable pulse repeater. The remote source supplies a low D.C. voltage which is converted to a high D.C. voltage for use by the detector. Signal pulses from the detector reach the remote measuring device substantially without alteration due to the aforementioned resistor which is chosen to have an impedance equal to the characteristic impedance of the coaxial cable.
Abstract:
At one of the vacuum tube is disposed an opaque photocathode receiving light from a window in the other end of the tube along a light axis which is spaced from and parallel to the axis of the tube. An accelerating mesh adjacent the photocathode rapidly accelerates the light produced photoelectrons in cooperation with an oblique electron lens along a path having an angle which is oblique to the light axis and tube axis toward a target or readout device. A field mesh adjacent the readout device accelerates the photoelectrons after being deflected by deflection plates to the readout device to provide an output photoelectron streak image thereon.
Abstract:
In an diode image amplifier or image transformer tube a part of the wall of the tube between the anode and cathode window is composed of one or more interconnected metal rings which can elastically be deformed to vary the distance between anode and cathode to avoid the use of a third focusing electrode.
Abstract:
In the optical guiding apparatus disclosed, the optical beam is guided and focused by solid lenses which are automatically positioned with respect to a reference axis established by the sensors. Fixed relative positioning of the sensors permits the movement of the lenses in a small number of discrete steps, each step being substantially equal to a threshold position error of a control loop. In a first embodiment, each sensor controls a plurality of beampositioning lenses collectively to provide the downstream beam position correction. two-position control and three-position control are employed. In second and third embodiments, each sensor effects compensating movements of upstream and downstream lenses to modify the beam position only locally.
Abstract:
An image intensifier tube comprising a phosphor screen and a photocathode is provided with a wire mesh adjacent the phosphor screen. This provides an equipotential surface and allows the main part of the focusing of electrons from the photocathode to be carried out in a relatively weak electric field. This leads to a reduction in the length of the tube.