56AVP PMT - First Fast Photomultiplier

 

Two page extract from the Philips PMT Catalog, 1993.  See Figure 1 for a diagram of the world's first commercial fast PMT.  This 14-stage linear-focused photomultiplier tube had a S-11 photocathode and a 2 ns rise time.

 

 

 

 


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