The Vidicon As A Radiometric Sensor
R. R. Billups, Jacob Rotstein, R. S. Sinclair · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1965
Historically, television pick-up tubes have been used in the entertainment and/or commercial fields to pick up an event for display to an audience. The use of the vidicon as a radiometric sensor can be much more demanding on the tube and requires a more rigorous definition of terms to describe the performance of the tube.* The method of measuring these characteristics and the manner of stating the derived quantities, also, must be more quantitative and objective than previously needed.