Reflectron ideal

In general the commercial TOP instruments have two detectors one for the linear mode and one for the reflectron mode. The combination of MALDI with TOP is ideal because both techniques are pulsed techniques. However, it is also possible to arrange a continuous beam as generated by electrospray ionization. Por that purpose orthogonal acceleration was developed [65]. The ion beam is introduced perpendicularly to the TOP and packets are accelerated orthogonally (oa-TOP) at similar frequencies improving the sensitivity. While a packet of ions is analyzed, a new beam is formed in the orthogonal acceleration. 

VM Doroshenko, RJ Cotter. Ideal velocity focusing in a reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometer. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 10 992—999, 1999. 

The ideal reflectron would provide kinetic energy correction to infinite order. One can easily show that this would occur if the reflectron was designed such that In this case, the flight time of an ion in the reflectron can be calculated ... 

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