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Articles you may be interested inJitter characteristic of series magnetic pulse compressor employed in ns trigger generator Rev. Sci. Instrum. 85, 053302 (2014); 10.1063/1.4874003Sine gating detector with simple filtering for low-noise infra-red single photon detection at room temperatureThe generator of precise delay over the range of 0-650 s is described. The delay is selected with 10 ps resolution and its jitter is below 8 ps ͑rms͒ for delays up to 10 s. The generator was designed as a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor programmable logic device driven by a signal generator. Three output pulses are generated: START, STOP, and GATE, all with the amplitude of 2.3 V and the switching times below 500 ps.

A new design of the precision time counter for satellite laser ranging is described. The instrument features 3 ps incremental resolution within the measuring range up to 21.47 s, the short-term rms error below 30 ps, and the time drift within ±5 ps. To reject unwanted noise and other disturbing signals the programmable window discriminator has been employed. In order to achieve high accuracy and good long-term stability we used an automatic calibration based on the adaptive prediction. Further significant reduction of the measurement error has been achieved by self-correction of the nonlinearity error and robust estimation. Results from experimental tests are presented to demonstrate the performance of the instrument.

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