• Acta Optica Sinica
  • Vol. 34, Issue 8, 804001 (2014)
Ni Qiliang*
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    DOI: 10.3788/aos201434.0804001 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Ni Qiliang. Optimization for Spatial Resolution and Count Rate of a Far Ultraviolet Photon-Counting Imaging Detector Based on Induced Charge Position-Sensitive Anode[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2014, 34(8): 804001 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A new prototype of two-dimensional photon-counting imaging detector with induced charge WSA anode in far ultraviolet (FUV) region has been developed based on the FUV imaging spectrometer′s requirements on high output count rate and spatial resolution. The detector is mainly composed of a CsI Chevron microchannel plate (MCP) stacks operating in pulse-counting mode, induced-charge wedge-strip position-sensitive anode (WSA) and correlative analog and data processing circuit. A three electrode induced-charge WSA anode with 48 mm diameter active area is designed and fabricated, and front-end analog and data collection circuit are also been developed. The space resolution for induced-charge WSA anode depends on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of front-end analog circuit, while the SNR is relative to the shaping time of shaping amplifier. The longer is the shaping time, the higher is the SNR, and the lower is the maximum output rate of the front-end analog circuit. Both resolution and maximum count rate are measured for different shaping time such as 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2 and 4 μs. The measured results show that the resolution is between 4 lp/mm and 9 lp/mm, and maximum output rate is between 11 kcounts/s and 105 kcounts/s. The shaping amplifier with 0.5 μs shaping time can only completely satisfy the requirement of FUV imaging spectrometer on the spatial resolution and maximum output rate.
    Ni Qiliang. Optimization for Spatial Resolution and Count Rate of a Far Ultraviolet Photon-Counting Imaging Detector Based on Induced Charge Position-Sensitive Anode[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2014, 34(8): 804001
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