{"id":922,"date":"2024-11-08T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/11\/08\/using-a-photomultiplier-thermatron-to-detect-single-photons-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:20","slug":"using-a-photomultiplier-thermatron-to-detect-single-photons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/11\/08\/using-a-photomultiplier-thermatron-to-detect-single-photons-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a Photomultiplier THERMATRON to Detect Single Photons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5V8VCFkAd0A?si=TIXaet6lss9P197G?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I&#8217;ve been a fan of Jeroen&#8217;s YouTube channel for a while now. He has a very nice approach, combining theoretical knowlege with practical experiments and equipment builds. Here we see him using a photomultiplier tube and a board acquired in flea market to build his photon detector. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>This video has a lot to offer us. First, there is a single thermatron. There is a tube socket. There is a (really small!) high-voltage power supply. He uses an oscilloscope. There is a laser. There are photons. And at one point, a single photon. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Having recently built a simple Wilson Cloud Chamber, my attraction to this device is easy to explain. I suspect our friend Grayson will be interested in it for Thermatronic reasons. There is a Part II. Check out the YouTube channel: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HuygensOptics\"><b>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HuygensOptics <\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Here is more info on the channel and it&#8217;s creator: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span face=\"Roboto, Noto, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b><i>Hi, my name is Jeroen and on the Huygens Optics channel I publish videos on personal projects. My main fields of interest are optics, mechanics and photolithography. The videos aren&#8217;t targeted towards a general audience but for people with a passion for science and technology (e.g. my fellow nerds). The channel is named after the famous Dutch mathematician, astronomer and inventor Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695). He was the first to publish a mathematical description of the wave properties of light, and also discovered Saturn&#8217;s rings. <\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span face=\"Roboto, Noto, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b><i>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span face=\"Roboto, Noto, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span face=\"Roboto, Noto, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b>Thanks Jeroen<\/b> <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of Jeroen&#8217;s YouTube channel for a while now. He has a very nice approach, combining theoretical knowlege with practical experiments and equipment builds. Here we see him using a photomultiplier tube and a board acquired in flea market to build his photon detector. This video has a lot to offer us. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/11\/08\/using-a-photomultiplier-thermatron-to-detect-single-photons-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using a Photomultiplier THERMATRON to Detect Single Photons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,213,154,212,166,39,71,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-cloud-chamber","category-evans-grayson","category-laser","category-netherlands","category-physics","category-test-gear","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11184,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/11184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}