Main Tab Page (Experiment Setup On Acquisition Menu) - Princeton Instruments PI-MAX 3 System Manual

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Main tab page
(Experiment Setup on Acquisition menu)
The Experiment Setup Main tab page is used to specify the most essential parameters.
These include the Exposure Time, Number of Images/Spectra, Number of Accumulations
and choice of Full Chip or Region of Interest readout. Some of the selections on this page
only apply for a PI-MAX3 camera. With other cameras these selections are not displayed.
Selections unique to the PI-MAX3 include.
Intensifier:
PI-MAX
Figure 73. Main tab page with PI-MAX3 camera
Gain: Sets the intensifier gain when operating with a PI-MAX3 intensified
camera. The range is in arbitrary units from 0 to 100. The default setting will
give good results in many applications.
Gate Mode: Selecting this radio button puts PI-MAX3 in Gate mode, in which
the photo-cathode is biased on by pulses generated by the Timing Generator.
Safe Mode: Selecting this radio button puts PI-MAX3 in the Safe mode, in
which the photocathode is continuously biased off until Gate Mode is selected.
Note that Safe mode is the turn-on default. In a system having the PI-MAX3
camera, when the software is booted, a dialog box appears that allows you to
change the PI-MAX3 start-up gate mode.
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