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Contents
1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 4
1.1 quTAG MC – state of the art time-to-digital converter ............................................... 4
1.2 Technical overview ................................................................................................... 4
1.3 Jitter Measurement .................................................................................................. 5
2. Safety and Maintenance .................................................................................................. 6
2.1 Legend ..................................................................................................................... 6
2.2 General Instructions ................................................................................................. 6
2.3 Environmental Conditions ........................................................................................ 7
2.4 Electrical Installation ................................................................................................ 7
2.5 Preventive Maintenance ........................................................................................... 7
2.6 Safety Testing .......................................................................................................... 8
2.7 Cleaning .................................................................................................................. 8
3 Technical Specifications .................................................................................................. 9
4 Variants and Options......................................................................................................11
5 Hardware Description ....................................................................................................12
5.1 Front side ................................................................................................................12
5.2 Displays on the front panel ......................................................................................13
5.3 Rear side .................................................................................................................13
5.4 Marker Inputs .........................................................................................................14
5.5 Output Channels .....................................................................................................15
5.6 Synchronization ......................................................................................................16
5.7 First Setup ..............................................................................................................16
6 Software Installation and Configuration .........................................................................17
6.1 Software Installation ...............................................................................................17
6.2 Firmware Update ....................................................................................................18
6.3 Hardware ID ...........................................................................................................19
6.4 Option Upgrade ......................................................................................................20
7 Daisy Software ...............................................................................................................21
7.1 Counting ................................................................................................................21
7.2 Coincidences ...........................................................................................................23
7.3 Histograms .............................................................................................................24
7.4 Correlation Measurement: HBT ...............................................................................25
7.5 Lifetime Measurement ............................................................................................27
7.6 Detector Parameter Settings ...................................................................................28
7.7 Filters .....................................................................................................................30
8 Other Software Components ..........................................................................................32
8.1 quTAG custom software ("DLL") ...............................................................................32
8.2 Tarec ......................................................................................................................32
8.3 Command Line Interface .........................................................................................33
9 FAQ / Trouble Shooting ..................................................................................................34
9.1 USB Driver Version ..................................................................................................34
9.2 Firmware Version ....................................................................................................34
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