vacuum phototube

A photo-emissive detector inside an evacuated envelope with a transparent window, the photocathode, and the anode. The photocathode can be opaque or semitransparent.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1745 (Nomenclature, symbols, units and their usage in spectrochemical analysis-XI. Detection of radiation (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)) on page 1752