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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1997
Hideki Suzuki, Hamamatsu, JP;
Minoru Kondo, Hamamatsu, JP;
Masuo Ito, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yoshitoshi Ishihara, Hamamatsu, JP;
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
In an image intensifier comprising an entrance faceplate, made of a material transparent to light, having a photoelectric surface, formed on a surface opposite to a light entrance surface, for photoelectrically converting incident light into an electron; and an optical fiber block, constituted by a plurality of optical fibers bundled together, having a phosphor face at an end face of each optical fiber on the light entrance side, for emitting light in response to the electron incident thereon; the photoelectric surface of the entrance faceplate and the phosphor face of the optical fiber block opposing each other, while a vacuum atmosphere being formed therebetween; the optical fiber block is provided with a pit in which an end face of a core portion of each optical fiber is recessed from an end face of a cladding portion thereof, the bottom of the pit is filled with a phosphor, the surface of this phosphor is provided with a metal back layer, the cladding portion projects from the surface of the phosphor toward the entrance surface by a predetermined height, and the projecting surface of the cladding portion is provided with a metal film.