Cathode Ray Oscilloscope | CRO

The Cathode Ray Oscilloscope is an instrument which we use in laboratory to display measure and analyze various waveforms of various electrical and electronic circuit.

Working Principle:
CRO used Lissajous pattern to Display Traces on oscilloscope Screen.
Actually cathode ray oscilloscope is very fast X-Y plotters that can display an input signal versus time or other signal. Cathode ray oscilloscope uses luminous spot which is produced by striking the beam of electrons and this luminous spot moves in response variation in the input quantity. At this moment one question must be arise in our mind that why we are using only an electron beam? The reason behind this is low effects of beam of electrons that can be used for following the changes in the instantaneous values of rapidly changing input quantity. The general forms of cathode ray oscilloscope operate on voltages. So the input quantity that we have talked above is voltage. Nowadays, with the help of transducers. it is possible to convert various physical quantities like current, pressure, acceleration etc to voltage thus it enable us to have a visual representations of these various quantities on cathode ray oscilloscope. Now let us look at the constructional details of the cathode ray oscilloscope.

Construction of Cathode Ray Oscilloscope

The main part of cathode ray oscilloscope is cathode ray tube which is also known as the heart of cathode ray oscilloscope.


  1. Electron gun.
  2. Deflection plate system.
  3. Fluorescent screen.
  4. Glass envelope.
  5. Base.




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