This page is intended to serve as a cheat sheet documenting trigger settings for common devices. 

FEE Detectors

   
   
   

CameraLink and PGP Cameras

N.B. Cspad numbers were determined in CXI and worked in XPP.

Febo numbers were determined in XCS.

Camera Model

Pulse Polarity

Pulse Delay

Pulse Width

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Adimec Opal 1000

Pos

0.0008

0.0002

Pulse width affects exposure time. 0.0001 sec is too short.

Adimec Opal 4000

Pos

0.0008

0.0002

Maximum trigger rate is 30Hz.

Pulnix TM-6740CL

Neg

0.0006

0.0005

Pulse width affects exposure time.

LBL FCCD

Pos



Pulse width does not affect exposure time.

Cspad

Neg

2.5e-4 after Run Delay

1e-5

The integration window in the full cspad is positioned by the sum of
two settings.  They are the Run Delay in 119 MHz ticks and the Acq Delay
in either 1.024 or 2.048 microsecond ticks.  For 1.0 firmware, use 2.048 and
for 1.2 or 1.5, use 1.024.

The firmware that supports the v1.5 ASICs, will use 1.024 microsecond
Acq Delay ticks and introduce a fourth variable in the mix above, the
Internal Trigger Delay in 125 MHz ticks.

On last sighting, the FEL was in the low 890 microseconds after the event
code 140.

Discussion on timing CSpad variants

Cspad2x2
Version 1.5
and Daq release
after 6.1.1

Pos

5.5e-4

1e-5

Run trigger the same, 5e-4 seconds, or 59524 ticks in the Daq system (typically evrstandalone process)

N.B. the above assumes a Acqdelay of 280.  AcqDelay is in units of
1.024e-6 seconds and the runTriggerDelay above.

(ONLY FOR SCANNING TIMING!
Start with 11020 runTriggerDelay in the configuration
Scan Run Trig Delay in units of 8e-9 seconds to time in or scan across. )

Discussion on timing CSpad variants

Febo (normal)

Pos

7.78e-4

1e-6

For normal mode, trigger width not critical

Febo (Average)

Pos

4.41e-4

1e-6

For averaging mode, trigger width not critical

IPIMB

Neg

0.000651824

5e-06


Wave8 (LCLS-I)Pos (Normal)

7.0676e-4 (83000 ticks for code 40) Run

1.0177e-3 (120000 ticks for code 40) Readout

832 ticks (does not matter)

832 ticks (does not matter)

Assumes CSA release delay of 15000 * Rst delay of 80000 in wave8 expert config.
Zyla/NeoPos0.00071e-05

For camera in 'overlap' mode using the global shutter only. Pulse width does not affect exposure time.


For details on other modes please see: Zyla: Trigger Timing, Readout Mode Configuration and Extender Setup

Jungfrau0.5M/1MPos0.000651e-05

N.B. This works when using the standard internal delay of the Jungfrau of 0.000238 s

Jungfrau4MPos0.000651e-05

The original delay for the Jungfrau4M was 0.000238 s

Using EVR2 as the trigger, the Jungfrau internal delay needed to be changed from 0.000238 to 0.000831s.   This change persisted after moving the detector back to EVR1.

AlviumPos0.000651e-05N.B. Setting the exposure via the pulse width does not currently work so timed exposure must be used.

Other Cameras

Camera Model

Pulse Polarity

Pulse Delay

Pulse Width

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Timepix

Neg

0.00085

0.0002

Pulse width affects exposure time.

RayonixPos0.0031e-5Pulse width does not affect exposure time. 10 Hz max@2x2 binning.

Other Devices

Model

Pulse Polarity

Pulse Delay

Pulse Width

comments

Agilent Acqiris U1065A and U1051A
(High Speed ADC and TDC)

Pos0.00070.0003Pulse width is not critical.

General Standards GSC16AI32SSC
(Beam Rate ADC)

Pos

0.0007

0.0003

Pulse width is not critical.

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