Ultraviolet light imaging technology and applications

Takane Yokoi; Kenji Suzuki; Koichiro Oba

doi:10.1117/12.44263

1 June 1991 Ultraviolet light imaging technology and applications

Takane Yokoi, Kenji Suzuki, Koichiro Oba

Proceedings Volume 1449, Electron Image Tubes and Image Intensifiers II; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.44263
Event: Electronic Imaging '91, 1991, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Demands on the high-quality imaging in ultraviolet (UV) light region have been increasing recently, especially in fields such as forensic investigations, laser experiments, spent fuel identification, and so on. Important requirements on the UV imaging devices in such applications are high sensitivity, excellent solar blindness, and small image distortion, since the imaging of very weak UV images are usually carried out under natural sunlight or room illuminations and the image data have to be processed to produce useful two-dimensional quantitative data. A new photocathode has been developed to meet these requirements. It is specially made of RbTe on a sapphire window and its quantum efficiency is as high as 20% with the solar blindness of 10,000. The tube is specially designed to meet UV light optics and to minimize image distortion. It has an invertor type image intensifier tube structure and intensifies the incident UV light up to approximately 10,000 times. The distortion of the output image is suppressed less than 1.8%, because of a specially designed electron optic lens system. The device has shown excellent results in the observation of such objects as fingerprints and footprints in forensic investigations, the Cherenkov light produced by the spent fuels stored in a cooling water pool in the nuclear power station, and UV laser beam path in excimer laser experiments. Furthermore, many other applications of the UV light imaging will be expected in various fields such as semiconductors, cosmetics, and electrical power.

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Takane Yokoi, Kenji Suzuki, and Koichiro Oba "Ultraviolet light imaging technology and applications", Proc. SPIE 1449, Electron Image Tubes and Image Intensifiers II, (1 June 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.44263

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Ultraviolet radiation

Image intensifiers

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Excimer lasers

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