Published January 1983
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Journal article
Single photon timing system for picosecond fluorescence lifetime measurements
Creators
- 1. Engineering and Technical Services Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
Description
A single-photon timing system is described which is capable of extracting fluorescence lifetimes as short as 25 ps. The system is an improved version of an earlier apparatus. The new system uses a synchronously pumped, mode-locked dye laser with 10-ps pulses operating at 82-MHz repetition rate. A fast photodetector and a leading-edge discriminator were developed to use with this light source. Also, a special rate reduction circuit was built to eliminate large oscillations in fluorescence decay spectra due to the excessive stop rates that overload commercial time-to-amplitude converters
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Rev. Sci. Instrum.
- Journal Volume
- 54
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Series
- Rev. Sci. Instrum.
- Journal Page Range
- 118-120
- ISSN
- 0034-6748
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 14750832
- Subject category
- S42: ENGINEERING;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- DYE LASERS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLUORESCENCE; LIFETIME; MHZ RANGE; MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PULSES; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIME-TO-AMPLITUDE CONVERTERS
- Descriptors DEC
- AMPLIFIERS; DATA; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUIPMENT; FREQUENCY RANGE; INFORMATION; LASERS; LUMINESCENCE; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NUMERICAL DATA; PULSE CONVERTERS