Stability Criteria for Television Camera Tubes

K. Sadashige

Electronic engineers face the difficult task of developing television camera equipment necessitated by the trend toward automated television studio operation. Broadcast equipment to be used in an automated studio must meet two requirements: (1) a very short warm-up time, so that it may be turned on and off readily in accordance With the broadcast schedule; and (2) peak or optimum performance attained within this short warm-up time and maintained within the usual environmental changes for at least eight hours without any operator attention. This paper describes a theoretical and experimental study of the basic imaging process of television camera tubes and the performance variations caused by the slow variations of operating parameters. It is intended to serve as a basis for designing stabilized television cameras.

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Published
1962-06
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J12118