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ELECTRO-OPTICAL IMAGE INTENSIFIER

Collection: School of Engineering Collection
Object Type: Ephemera
Artist/Maker: NV Optische Industrie
Place Made: Netherlands
Date: c.1930s
Media/Materials: ink on paper
Dimensions: frame: 65 x 84cm image: 46 x 66.5cm

Description:

Framed poster for the Old Delft Electro-Optical Image Intensifier, with an annotated diagram. Cinelix 12.5 inch electro-optical image intensifer. Yellow, black and red print on paper.
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An image intensifier or image intensifier tube is a vacuum tube device for increasing the intensity of available light in an optical system to allow use under low-light conditions, such as at night, to facilitate visual imaging of low-light processes, such as fluorescence of materials in X-rays or gamma rays (X-ray image intensifier), or for conversion of non-visible light sources, such as near-infrared or short wave infrared to visible. They operate by converting photons of light into electrons, amplifying the electrons (usually with a microchannel plate), and then converting the amplified electrons back into photons for viewing


Object Number: ABDRG2018.160