ORTEC Easy-MCS, Руководство пользователя по оборудованию

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1. INTRODUCTION
The ORTEC
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Easy-MCS™ converts your computer into a powerful multichannel scaler (MCS)
or multiple-stop-time spectrometer. With dwell times from 100 ns to 1300 s, a memory length of
65,536 channels, and input counting rates up to 150 MHz, the Easy-MCS has the flexibility to
handle a wide variety of counting and timing applications, including:
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Time-resolved single-photon counting
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Phosphorescence lifetime spectrometry
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Atmospheric and satellite LIDAR
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Laser-induced chemical reactions
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Scanning mass spectrometers
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Time-of-flight spectrometry
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Scanning X-ray diffractometers
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Mössbauer experiments
The Easy-MCS connects to your computer via a high-speed USB 2.0 interface, and one com-
puter can control up to eight units.
The accompanying MCS-32 software allows you to manipulate all controls and spectral data
from your computer or across a network. Multiple Easy-MCS units can be run at the same time
with corresponding multiple instances of the MCS-32 program.
1.1. Easy-MCS Features
Hardware
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Small-footprint instrument connects to the host computer via high-speed USB.
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Dwell time selectable from 100 ns to 1,300 seconds per channel.
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Number of channels per scan selectable from 4 to 65,536.
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Accepts counting rates up to 150 MHz at the fast analog input.
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1-MHz single-channel analyzer input with computer-controlled upper- and lower-level
discriminators independently adjustable from 0 to +10 V.
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Computer adjustable discriminator thresholds on the fast analog input and the external
channel advance input.
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Zero dead time between channels: absolutely no lost counts and no double counting at
channel boundaries.
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No end-of-pass dead time.
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Sum mode for signal averaging; Replace mode for single-scan data; Replace-then-Sum
mode to circumvent reset dead time between acquisitions.
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Up to 1,073,741,823 counts per channel in single or multiple passes.
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Automatic termination of data acquisition after a preset number of passes (up to
4 billion).