MX-10160
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MX10160 is the designation for a specification for image intensifier tubes for the United States military.
The designation is often used to refer to the format of the tube specified inside of the specification, as all iterations of the specification reuse the same format to facilitate backwards compatibility.
Other names commonly used to refer to the format are Small Anvis (because it was developed for AN/AVS-6 binoculars) and 18 mm (because the built-in microchannel wafer has a diameter of 18 millimeters).
Iterations
MX10160
The original MX10160/AVS-6 specification was introduced in 1997 in the MIL-I-49428 specification. [1]
Key specifications include:
- 18mm microchannel wafer
- minimum useful photocathode and phosphor screen diameter of 17.5 mm
- maximum weight of 85 grams
- phosphor screen type P-20
- image inversion
- resistance to shocks of at least 75 G's
- equivalent background input of 2.5 * 10-11 lumens/cm2
- maximum gain between 20.000 and 35.000 at 2 x 10-6 footcandles
- resistance to bright lights
- minimum signal-to-noise ratio of 16.2
- image alignment
- minimum resolution of 36 line pairs per millimeter (lp/mm)
- minimum high light resolution of 5 lp/mm (at 20 footcandles)
- compatibility with ANVIS monocular assembly
- modular transfer function at 8 x 10-4 footcandle:
- 83% MTF at 2.5 lp/mm
- 58% MTF at 7.5 lp/mm
- 28% MTF at 15.0 lp/mm
- 8% MTF at 25.0 lp/mm
