“Pulse-resolved multi-photon X-ray detection at 31 MHz based on a quadrant avalanche photodiode” by Markus Osterhoff
Reusch_JSR_2014
- Pulse-resolved multi-photon X-ray detection at 31 MHz based on a quadrant avalanche photodiode
- doi:10.1107/S1600577514006730
- Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 21, 708–715
The technical realisation and the commissioning experiments of a high-speed X-ray detector based on a quadrant avalanche silicon photodiode and high-speed digitizers are described. The development is driven by the need for X-ray detectors dedicated to time-resolved diffraction and imaging experiments, ideally requiring pulse-resolved data processing at the synchrotron bunch repetition rate. By a novel multi-photon detection scheme, the exact number of X-ray photons within each X-ray pulse can be recorded. Commissioning experiments at beamlines P08 and P10 of the storage ring PETRA Ⅲ, at DESY, Hamburg, Germany, have been used to validate the pulse-wise multi-photon counting scheme at bunch frequencies ≥31 MHz, enabling pulse-by-pulse readout during the PETRA Ⅲ 240-bunch mode with single-photon detection capability. An X-ray flux of ≥3.7×10⁹ photons s⁻¹ can be detected while still resolving individual photons at low count rates.
- ultra-fast detection, time-resolved diffraction, multi-photon counting
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