An LED pulser for measuring photomultiplier linearity

Details An LED pulser for measuring photomultiplier linearity An LED pulser for measuring photomultiplier linearity

2011-08-15

arxiv.org/abs/1108.3096v2

Physics

Instrumentation and Detectors

5 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

A light-emitting diode (LED) pulser for testing the low-rate response of a photomultiplier tube (PMT) to scintillator-like pulses has been designed, developed, and implemented. This pulser is intended to simulate 80 ns full width at half maximum photon pulses over the dynamic range of the PMT, in order to precisely determine PMT linearity. This particular design has the advantage that, unlike many LED test rigs, it does not require the use of multiple calibrated LEDs, making it insensitive to LED gain drifts. Instead, a finite-difference measurement is made using two LEDs which need not be calibrated with respect to one another. These measurements give a better than 1% mapping of the response function, allowing for the testing and development of particularly linear PMT bases.

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