APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR REDUCTION OF COHERENT NOISE IN A DIGITAL SIGNAL AVERAGER

摘要

Apparatus and methods are provided for reducing coherent noise in measurements of repetitive analog signal waveforms by digital signal averagers. A conventional DSA (30) being used to record the time-dependent signal (5) constituting a portion of interest of an ion mass spectrum produced by a time-of-flight mass analyzer (25). Upon application of a voltage pulse (20) from a voltage pulse generator (21) to an electrode (22) boundingthe pulsing region (23), ions are accelerated into the time-of-flight measurement chamber (26), and arrive at a detector (27) with a time dependence that is proportional to the square-root of their mass-to-charge ratio.