Detector for Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy

摘要

Nuclear quadrupole resonant spectroscopy is method similar to nuclear magnetic resonant spectroscopy also called zero field NMR. The response signal magnitude is very low and it is immersed in to the noise. There can be used some methods to harvest signal from noise it can be matched receiver or averaging. This authors describe detector for Nuclear quadrupole resonant spectroscopy based on statistic methods and probability of distribution, that allow to measure repetitive signals below noise level. The paper presents the mathematical model and practical solution of the detector, and problems such as the dynamic range and signal distortion based on the signal-to-noise ratio are also analyzed in the given context. If the time of signal occurrence is known, the repetitive signal below the noise level can be harvested out of noise by averaging because of the wanted signal is correlated therefor highlighted by averaging contrast to the noise which is not correlated so it is supressed by averaging. The same principle we can use in domain of digital signal. So the input signal can be converted to the digital representation. There is an comparator with a triggering level immersed in the noise so the comparator is flipping continuously and the probability of output values is affected by input signal. The output digital signal can be processed by FPGA.