Results of a new experiment investigating fiberhyphen;coupled, astronomical CCD cameras as imaging systems for electrohyphen;optic devices are described. These results indicate that singlehyphen;electron detection is achievable at 10hyphen;kV energy and that the resolution can exceed 35hyphen;mgr;m FWHM. A system using such a camera to read a matched, highhyphen;resolution phosphor is described, and characterizations of the various component efficiencies are given. It is concluded that this system offers formidable competition to microchannel plate intensified systems with respect to dynamic range, absolute sensitivity, and cost.
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