148 Other electronics

that the principal noise source was the ±24 V internal power supply that is replaced
with a low noise external DC power supply line.

Figure 7.11: Box that contains six high voltage amplifiers

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The RF photodiode boards are designed by LENS electronic workshop. The used
photodiode is the model FD500 of Fermionics manufacturer. The board mounts a
dual transimpedance amplifier with a total gain of 400. After the amplifier are placed
the following elements: a transformer, a limiting amplifier with gain equal to 6 and
and output level limitation such that the maximum output level is about 7dBm. The
amplified signal is one of the two input of a class mixer (model ZRPD2+ mixer of
Minicircuit company). Its second input is an external RF oscillating signal used to
demodulate the photodiode output. After that the signal is filtered by a low pass filter
with roll-off frequency of 4.7 MHz. The input impedance of the filter is 50 Ω whereas
the output impedance of the mixer is equal to 500 Ω therefore another operational
amplifier is used to match the impedance. The output of the board is differential
and is generated by means of a fully differential amplifier with a gain equal to 4.6.
The board is equipped by two additional output signals: the first is an RF monitor
of the photodiode AC component before the mixer, whereas the second is connected
directly to the photodiode output, before the transimpedance amplifier, and is used as
monitor for photodiode alignment. The board is supplied at ±5 V and the photodiode
bias is equal to 5 V.
The low frequency photodiode board are developed by EGO electronic workshop
group. These boards mount a transimpedance amplifier, a low pass filter and are
supplied at ±12 V. Each board has two outputs one which is single ended and it
is useful during the detector alignment and one which is fully differential and it is
connected to UDSPT boards. A photo of the low frequency and high frequency