Pulse repetition frequencies

PRF. Defines the pulse repetition frequency (PRF), in Hz, of the probe firing. 

The screen shows the predefined area to be scanned and filled to ensure maximum coverage The transmitter operates with a frequency of 40 kHz and with a pulse repetition frequency of 200 Hz. This gives the system an accuracy in positioning of better than 1 mm. 

Leifs,/e be the sampling and the excitation pulse repetition frequencies, respectively. Equation (9.86) can be rewritten in the following form ... 

Fig. 5.2. Schematic r.f. systems, (a) Simple heterodyne circuit, SI determines the pulse length, S2 switches the lens from transmit to receive, and A1 amplifies the reflected signal (b) quasi-monochromatic circuit the two oscillators and the pulse repetition frequency are phase-locked, and the final signal is lock-in detected (courtesy of John...

Fig. 1. The spectral shape of the carrier function (left) assumed to be narrower than the pulse repetition frequency Au>c

To obtain IR spectra on a time scale of nanoseconds, the sample cell in conventional spectrometers is usually excited by an Nd YAG laser. Flow cells with a pathlength of at least 0.1 mm must be used for photoreactive samples and the pulse repetition frequency is then limited to 1 Hz. In step scan FTIR spectroscopy,211 the time evolution is collected at single points of the interferogram, which is then reconstructed point-by-point and subsequently transformed to time-resolved IR spectra. Alternatively, dispersive instruments equipped with a strong IR source can be used.212 The time resolution of both methods is about 50 ns. FTIR instruments provide a triggerable fast-scan mode to collect a complete spectrum within a few milliseconds.213... 

The major difference between soft shaped pulses and DANTE methods is the occurrence of strong sideband excitation windows either side of the principal window with DANTE. These occur at offsets from the transmitter at multiples of the hard-pulse frequency, 1/x. They arise from magnetisation vectors that are far from resonance and which process full circle during the x period. Since this behaviour is precisely equivalent to no precession, they are excited as if on-resonance. Further sidebands at 2/x, 3/x and so on also occur by virtue of trajectories completing multiple full circles during x. Such multisite excitation can at times be desirable [50,51] but if only a single excitation window is required, the hard pulse repetition frequency must be adjusted by varying x to ensure the sideband excitations do not coincide with other resonances. 

Correlation down to 100 ns is usually enough to resolve diffusion times and intersystem crossing. Nevertheless, cross-correlation data at a shorter time-scale can be obtained by using two TCSPC modules with synchronised macrotime clocks (see Fig. 5.120). Synchronisation can be achieved by using the Sync signal, i.e. the laser pulse repetition frequency, as a macro time clock for both modules. This synchronisation works up to about 100 MHz, so that times down to 10 ns can be correlated. 

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