a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera; electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons
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image orthicon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | orthicon |
| Type of | television-camera tube, television pickup tube |
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Indeed it was the representative of the European tradition in electronic tubes competing against the American tradition represented by the image orthicon.
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Historically, the image orthicon TV camera tube widely used in television studios prior to the development of modern CCD arrays also used multistage electron multiplication.
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