ANALOG OPTICAL-TRANSMISSION OF FAST PHOTOMULTIPLIER PULSES OVER DISTANCES OF 2-KM

Authors
KARLE A MIKOLAJSKI T CICHOS S HUNDERTMARK S PANDEL D SPIERING C STREICHER O THON T WIEBUSCH C WISCHNEWSKI R
Citation
A. Karle et al., ANALOG OPTICAL-TRANSMISSION OF FAST PHOTOMULTIPLIER PULSES OVER DISTANCES OF 2-KM, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 387(1-2), 1997, pp. 274-277
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
387
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
274 - 277
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1997)387:1-2<274:AOOFPP>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
New LED transmitters have been used to develop a new method of fast an alog transmission of PMT pulses over large distances. The transmitters , consisting basically of InGaAsP LEDs with the maximum emission of li ght at 1300 nm, allow the transmission of fast photomultiplier pulses over distances of more than 2 km. The shape of the photomultiplier pul ses is maintained, with an attenuation less than 1 dB/km. Typical appl ications of analog optical signal transmission are surface air shower detectors and under water/ice neutrino experiments, which measure fast Cherenkov or scintillator pulses at large detector distances to the c entral DAQ system.