Signal timing, detectors

Figure 11 Single detector signal provided by the inspection of inner circonferential notch tube sample, and corresponding scalogram. Time axis (in s) and frequency axis (in Hz) have been scaled according to the speed of evolution of the detector in ihe tube (500 mm/s).

Figure Bl.10.8. Time spectrum ftom a double coincidence experiment. Tln-ough the use of a delay in the lines of one of the detectors, signals that occur at the same instant in botii detectors are shifted to tlie middle of the time spectrum. Note the unifonn background upon which the true comcidence signal is superimposed. In order to decrease the statistical uncertainty in the detemiination of the true coincidence rate, the background is sampled over a time Aig that is much larger than the width of the true coincidence signal. Ax.

Equations (33) and (34) demonstrate that the motion quantities 5 (displacement) and v (velocity) are encoded in phase and frequency modulation of the detector output signal, purely referenced to the laser wavelength A. Tobeableto recover the time histories s(t) and v t) from the modulated detector signal, adequate phase and frequency demodulation techniques, or both, are utilized in the signal decoder blocks of a laser vibrometer. 

The y-detector of a Mossbauer spectrometer converts the incident y-photons into electric output pulses of defined charge (see Sect. 3.1.6). The detector signals are electronically amplified and shaped by an amplifier network to obtain strong needle pulses with well-defined rise time, so that the pulse height is proportional to the energy of the incident photon. The amplifiers are usually adjusted to obtain... 

One could consider the correlogram to be a snapshot of past events. We must memorize the detector signals and valve positions over a period of time and then calculate a correlogram with this data. To obtain a more up-to-date snapshot we must return to the array of data and calculate another correlogram based on the newest information which has been placed in the array. 

Figure 5. Construction of correlograms. a Detector signal generated by the sample injected over a period of time according to the PRBS shown below b. Calculation of correlation coefficients, c. Correlogram.

If we were to use two detectors, one specific for only A and one specific for only B, the signals would appear, shifted In time, as shown In Figure 6a. The position of the Injection valve at the time these detector values were recorded Is also shown. Similarly, If we were to use on non-specific detector, the sum of the signals due to A and B would yield the detector signal labeled In Figure 6a as Combined Signal. 

Now let us take a time period of detector signals large enough to encompass the length of the pseudo random binary sequence Injection code which produced It, and cross-correlate It with this Injection code of -1 and 1. 

Gas chromatographic data was obtained on a Tracor Model 220 gas chromatograph equipped with a Varian Model 8000 autosampler. The analysis column was a 1.7 m "U column, 4 mm id, filled with 3% SP-2250 packing (Supelco, Inc., Bellefonte, PA) held at 200 C. The injection temperature was 250 and the nitrogen carrier gas flow rate was 60 mL/min. The detector temperatures were 350 for electron capture and 190 for flame photometric. Detector signals were processed by a Varian Vista 401 which gave retention times and peak areas. 

In robustness tests, peak measurementfanalysis parameters can also be considered. Such parameters are related to the measurement of the detector signal and they affect responses, such as peak areas, peak heights, retention time, and resolution. They allow improving the quality of these responses. These factors can be found in the data treatment software of an instrument, where often only the default settings are used by the analyst. 

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