Position sensing using pico-second timing with micro-channel plate devices and waveform sampling

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 2 PART 1, 2010, Pages 525-532

  Byrum, Karen ^a   Frisch, Henry J ^a   Genat, Jean Francois C ^a   Heintz, Mary K ^a   May, Edward N ^a   Natoli, Tyler ^a   Tang, Fukun ^a   Yurtsev, Eugene ^a  

^a University of Chicago ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fast timing; Micro channel plates; Pico second; Sampling; Transmission lines

Indexed keywords

10 MICRON; FAST SIGNAL; FAST TIMING; LARGE AREA DEVICES; LASER SOURCES; LONG TRANSMISSION LINES; MICRO CHANNEL PLATE; MICRO-CHANNEL PLATES; PORE DIAMETERS; POSITION RESOLUTION; POSITION SENSING; SIMULATION RESULT; TRANSMISSION LINE; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM PROCESSING;

IMAGE STORAGE TUBES; POSITION MEASUREMENT; TIME MEASUREMENT; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 77951149504     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2039805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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