Performance characteristics of SPAN position readout systems

Jonathan S. Lapington; A. A. Breeveld; Michael L. Edgar; Alan Smith

doi:10.1117/12.130692

8 October 1992 Performance characteristics of SPAN position readout systems

Jonathan S. Lapington, A. A. Breeveld, Michael L. Edgar, Alan Smith

Proceedings Volume 1743, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy III; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.130692
Event: San Diego '92, 1992, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The SPAN position readout device uses a charge division and measurement method to encode the coordinates of the centroid of a charge cloud and thus provides a technique for imaging with photon counting detectors of various formats; for example, microchannel plate intensifiers and gas proportional counters. Its principle of operation causes the position resolution to substantially exceed the charge measurement precision. The reduced signal to noise requirement compared with the competitive devices of comparable imaging format size enables the SPAN readout system to operate at higher input count rates. We present imaging performance results from SPAN readout systems incorporated in several detector formats. The dependence of the physical parameters of the SPAN pattern design on the detector type and geometry together with the performance trade-offs between speed and resolution for these particular detectors are discussed. The practical implementation of the SPAN readout decoding algorithm is outlined. We describe the experimental applications for which the SPAN readout system has been proposed.

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Jonathan S. Lapington, A. A. Breeveld, Michael L. Edgar, and Alan Smith "Performance characteristics of SPAN position readout systems", Proc. SPIE 1743, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy III, (8 October 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.130692

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