Photomultiplier scanning, image-dissector

These tubes have been employed with both one- and two-dimensional dispersive systems. For example, Harber and Sonnek (43) described an electronic scanning spectrometer based on an image-dissector photomultiplier in conjunction with a onedimensional dispersive system. Their system used a 12.7 cm Czerny-Turner mount with a reciprocal linear dispersion of... 

Image dissector tubes (Fig. 26) make use of an entrance aperture behind the photocathode, by which the photoelectrons stemming from different locations of the photocathode can be scanned and measured after amplification in the dynode train, as in a conventional photomultiplier. Although used in combination with an echelle spectrometer with crossed dispersion for flexible rapid sequential analyses [59], these systems have not had any commercial breakthrough. This might be due to the limited cathode dimensions but also to stability problems. 

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