Useful Stuff

Stuff

SSEC project numbers (12/9/2002)

Physical constants (adopted from MathCad)

Hamamatsu PMT data analyzed using MathCad

Basic STAMP2 program for controlling the Iseg PMT Base

Dan's "Dark Tube" machine drawing

MathCad document to calculate how many photons can go through Dan's Dark Tube

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis

Pulser ideas

Avalanche Transistor

ZETEX ZTX415 datasheet

ZETEX app note on ZTX415

Someone's webpage describing an avalanche LED pulser

Step Recovery Diode

Publications list from AVTECH Corp., a company who makes nanosecond waveform generators.  The list includes a PhD thesis discussing the use of a step recovery diode for high-voltage pulse shaping applications.

S.M. Sze, "Physics of Semiconductor Devices", 2nd ed., pp 117-122, discusses the step recovery diode (2.7.6 Charge-Storage Diode) and the p-i-n Diode (2.7.7).

RSI Articles

Kilpelä and Kostamovaara [RSI 68(6), 2253 (1997)] describes a laser pulser for a time-of-flight laser radar employing an avalanche transistor.  Contains a good discussion on avalanche transistor operation.

Adler and Busby [RSI 59(4), 646 (1988)] describes a pulsed 500-MHz arbitrary waveform generator using an AVTECH pulse generator, delay lines and variable attenuators.

Howard and Daneshvar [RSI 60(10), 3343 (1989)] describes a nanosecond pulse generator for laser diodes employing a step recovery diode.