500 Picosecond Gating Option - Princeton Instruments PI-MAX System Manual

Chapter 7

500 Picosecond Gating Option

Gated Operation with a PTG
The 500 Picosecond (500 ps) Gating Option, available for PI-MAX detectors
with fast gate RB intensifiers, uses the PTG for timing. Please refer to the
following information when in setting up your system for this option:
1. Enable the 500 ps
gating option by
selecting the "Enable
Fast Pulse Option"
checkbox on the
Experiment
Setup|Main tab page
(see Figure 38). Wait
about 10 minutes
before taking data to
ensure that the
acquired data will be
valid.
2. When setting up the
pulser, select the
PTG as the active
pulser.
3. When setting up
triggers, the
maximum trigger
frequency is 2000 Hz.
Figure 38. Experiment Setup|Main tab page
Figure 39. PTG|Triggers tab page
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