基于斜坡脉冲的多米诺环形采样器(DRS4)采样间隔不均匀校准方法研究

Research of ramp pulse-based non-uniform sampling interval calibration method for Domino ring sampler(DRS4)

  • 摘要: 针对多米诺环形采样器(DRS4)采样单元的采样间隔不均匀,提出了一种新的校准方法,以斜坡脉冲作为校准源,利用每两个连续采样单元对斜坡脉冲采样的幅度差和采样间隔的固定比例关系(斜率相等)进行计算,获得采样间隔的校准值。信号发生器产生周期200 ns、斜率±4.5 mv/ns的两种斜坡脉冲,波形采样数字化板采样后计算线性增加/降低过程中1 024个采样单元的采样间隔,得到采样单元平均采样间隔为200.288 ps,RMS为15.603 ps。测试结果与“正弦波过零”法和“锯齿波”法得到的校准采样间隔进行比较,平均采样间隔相对误差分别为0.14%、2.49%、2.48%,斜坡法校准精度最高。同时,斜坡法对校准源信号频率无范围限制,迭代次数3 000次即可满足测量精度,更适合于具有实时校准应用需求的场合。

     

    Abstract: A novel non-uniform sampling interval calibration method is proposed for the Domino Ring Sampler (DRS4). This method calculates the calibration value of the sampling interval by maintaining a fixed proportionality (equal slope) between the amplitude difference of the ramp pulse and the sampling interval of each two consecutive sampling cells, utilizing the ramp pulse as the calibration source. The signal generator produces two ramp pulses with a period of 200 ns and a slope of ±4.5 mV/ns. These ramp pulses are then sent to the waveform sampling digitizer to calculate the sampling intervals of 1024 sampling cells in the linear increase/decrease process. The average sampling interval of the sampling cells is found to be 200.288 ps, with an RMS of 15.603 ps. Test results comparing this method with the "zero-crossing of sine wave" and "sawtooth wave" methods show that the relative errors of the average sampling interval are 0.14%, 2.49%, and 2.48%, respectively. These results indicate that the calibration accuracy of the ramp method is the highest. Furthermore, the ramp method has no frequency range limitation for the calibration source signal, and conducting 3000 iterations is adequate to achieve the necessary measurement accuracy. This makes it more suitable for applications with real-time calibration requirements.

     

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