Cross strip microchannel plate imaging photon counters with high time resolution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7681, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Siegmund, Oswald H W ^a   Vallerga, John V ^a   Tremsin, Anton S ^a   Stonehill, Laura C ^b   Shirey, Robert ^b   Rabin, Michael W ^b   Thompson, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

High Resolution Imaging; Microchannel Plates; Position Sensitive Detectors

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; COUNTING RATES; CROSS-STRIP; EVENT TIMING; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; HIGH-TIME RESOLUTION; MICRO CHANNEL PLATE; MICROCHANNEL PLATE DETECTOR; PARALLEL CHANNEL; PHOTON COUNTERS; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS; SEALED TUBES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE STORAGE TUBES; MICROCHANNELS; PHOTONS;

SENSORS;

EID: 77953749193     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.846888     Document Type: Conference Paper

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