PHOTONIS is at the forefront of the research, development and manufacturing of streak tubes capable of resolving high-speed events over a wide-range of input wavelengths.

These can measure the time variation of light intensity relating to the position or the time variation of an incident light relating to wavelength.

The tubes provide different levels of spatial resolution, temporal resolution, static or dynamic – depending on design choices that include photocathode options, screen phosphors, bilamellar optics and transfer technology.

PHOTONIS also develops high-end products for scientific experiments and uses its expertise for applications in molecular and plasma physics, detonics and ballistics, laser interferometry and temporal measurement, fluorescence spectroscopy, biology and femtochemistry.

Adapting its photomultiplier tube technology, PHOTONIS has been developing the multipixel tube design allowing high quantum efficiency performance combined with multianode requirements to lower cost per channel in PET.

Meanwhile, large spherical tubes have been developed for neutrino physics and low intrinsic noise tube capabilities created for very specific physics experiments.

The concept of PLANACON has allowed a real multianode capability, with a high photocathode quantum efficiency by transfer technique, maintaining a compact design and high gain by a multichannel plate multiplier.