title: Automatic, tracking, peak timer.
abstract: We have designed an inexpensive instrument for automatically measuring time of flight for repetitive signals. It is stable in the presence of noise resembling the real signal. Specific peaks in a multipeak signal can be timed to an accuracy of about 10 ns with the present design. The output is either a digital word or an analog voltage. Computer control is simple and would make it possible to time several signals with the same instrument.
authors.affiliation: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964, USA.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Holcomb
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koczynski