Method for measuring pulse width, which is less than the dead time of measurement instrument

Author

Bespal´ko, V. ; Savarovsky, J. ; Stepin, V. ; Stepin, D.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Riga, Latvia

fYear

2012

fDate

3-5 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

311

Lastpage

314

Abstract

A method for measuring narrow pulse width of a pulse train by means of single channel time analyzer is described. The provided method is free of limitations concerning dead time of measuring channel of the analyzer. It is shown that cycle-to-cycle jitter measurement of the pulse train allows estimating both pulse width measurement error and minimum acceptable pulse width, which is determined by specifying a relative measurement error. Measurement results of 1 ns and 4 ns pulses with errors of ±65 ps and ±10 ps respectively are presented.

Keywords

measurement errors; cycle-to-cycle jitter measurement; dead time; measurement instrument; minimum acceptable pulsewidth; narrow pulsewidth measurement; pulse train; pulsewidth measurement error; relative measurement error; single channel time analyzer; time -10 ps; time -65 ps; time 1 ns; time 10 ps; time 4 ns; time 65 ps; Atmospheric measurements; Jitter; Measurement errors; Measurement uncertainty; Particle measurements; Pulse measurements; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics Conference (BEC), 2012 13th Biennial Baltic

Conference_Location

Tallinn

ISSN

1736-3705

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2775-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BEC.2012.6376879

Filename

6376879