• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 41, Issue 6, 658 (2012)
NI Qiliang1、*, BU Shaofang1、2, LIU Shijie1, HE Lingping1, and ZHANG Hongji1
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    DOI: 10.3788/gzxb20124106.0658 Cite this Article
    NI Qiliang, BU Shaofang, LIU Shijie, HE Lingping, ZHANG Hongji. Preconditioning Experiment Research of Microchannel Plate Photon Counting Imaging Detector[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2012, 41(6): 658 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A preconditioning process encompassed vacuum baking and burnin with ultraviolet radiation. An equipment of preconditioning of microchannel plate was designed which could provide vacuum environment (10-5 Pa at least) as well as heating elements. The heating elements were controlled to reach 350℃ and then the vacuum chamber was sustained 350℃ for 18 hours in the procedure of bakeout. The burnin procedure illuminating with ultraviolet radiation (253.7 nm) from a deuterium lamp was achieved when 0.06 Coulomb cm-2 was extracted from the MCP stack output. After the preconditioning the image spatial resolution reached to 125 μm, the background events rate dropped to be 0.53 counts/s·cm2 from 27.09 counts/s·cm2, the pluse height distribution curve closed to Gauss distribution and turned to be more narrow.
    NI Qiliang, BU Shaofang, LIU Shijie, HE Lingping, ZHANG Hongji. Preconditioning Experiment Research of Microchannel Plate Photon Counting Imaging Detector[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2012, 41(6): 658
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