I bought a #Hamamatsu H7828 photomultiplier module, a ‘photon counter’. They’re insanely sensitive 😳

Seller knows what they’re dealing with and sealed it nicely in aluminum tape.

I left the tape mounted and put it in a box to screen the ambient light in my lab (which was already dimmed), then powered it on. It shows a ‘dark count’, noise that produces a certain level of ‘background’ pulses. Then I opened the box, just a little. And it’s visible!! 😳😳

A few photons, not many, still makes it to the detector, despite the aluminum tape sealing, it’s insanely sensitive 🤯🤯

I need to find a way to count the pulses and do some statistics on it, stay tuned for future experiments 🤓

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