基于交流调制技术的弱电流放大器研制

在射线强度测量中,积分电离室输出的电流信号在10–10~10–15 A范围内,该弱电流信号需要转换和放大才可以进行采集。针对积分电离室本文设计了一种弱电流信号放大系统,采用交流调制技术将待测弱直流电流信号调制为交流电压信号,再经放大、相敏检波、滤波等电路处理后得到直流电压信号,最后进行数据采集;同时在系统中引入直流负反馈后缩短了电流测量的响应时间。采用标准电流源测试了系统输入输出线性及响应特性,测试了积分电离室检测氚靶的β射线。测试结果表明:该系统能够有效放大10–14~10–11 A范围内的弱电流信号且有较好的线性和响应时间特性,电流测量灵敏度达到了10–14 A,该系统具有良好的工程应用前景。     

A novel acquisition method for nuclear spectra based on pulse area analysis

A novel simple method based on pulse area analysis (PAA) is presented for acquisition of nuclear spectra by a digitizer. The PAA method can be used as a substitute for the traditional method of pulse height analysis (PHA). In the PAA method a commercial digitizer was employed to sample and sum in the pulse, and the area of the pulse is proportional to the energy of the detected radiation. The results of simulation and experiment indicate the great advantages of the PAA method, especially as the count rate is high and the shaping time constant is small. When the shaping time constant is 0.5 μs, the energy resolution of PAA is about 66% better than that of PHA.