Abstract: A traveling-wave deflection system comprising a pair of deflectors disposed opposite each other across the path of an electron beam from an electron gun to a screen in a cathode-ray tube. Each deflector has a helical conductor wound around a core structure generally extending along the beam path. If made solely of an insulating material as in the prior art, the core structures would be electrified in use of the CRT, with the consequent deflection defocusing and bright line displacement. Therefore, in order to avoid electrification, the core structures are each enveloped in an antielectrification layer of a conducting material having a higher resistivity than the helical conductor. An embodiment is also disclosed wherein the core structures are wholly of conductive material.

Abstract: An apparatus for translating an optical image, as of a waveform, created by an electron beam device such as a cathode-ray tube into an electric signal. A fiber optics faceplate, having a multiplicity of optical fibers laid parallel to one another, is held against the CRT screen for transmitting the optical image to an image sensor such as that comprised of charge-coupled devices. Although preferable to optical lens systems because of far less transmission loss, the fiber optics faceplate has been susceptible to the irregular electrification of its light-exit surface, resulting in the appearance of starlike bright dots upon image reproduction from the output from the image sensor. Such irregular electrification is avoided by providing a transparent layer of electrically conducting material between the fiber optics faceplate and the image sensor.