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by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 25)
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Photomultiplier tube

 wiki tags: Photonics equipment
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Can be used to detect single photons.
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Richard Feynman likes them, he describes the tube at Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics Lecture at University of Auckland (1979) at one point.
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It uses the photoelectric effect multiple times to produce a chain reaction.

 Ancestors

  1. Photomultiplier
  2. Single photon production and detection experiments
  3. Photon
  4. Elementary particle
  5. Subatomic particle
  6. Standard Model
  7. Particle physics
  8. Physics
  9. Natural science
  10. Science
  11. Index

 Incoming links

  • Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics Lecture at University of Auckland (1979)
  • Single photon production and detection experiments
  • Spontaneous parametric down-conversion

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