US 11,656,371 B1
High dynamic range detector with controllable photon flux functionality
Jonathan Garel, Rehovot (IL); Amit Weingarten, Ramat Gan (IL); Semyon Shofman, Kiryat Ekron (IL); and Alexander Kadyshevitch, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to El-Mul Technologies Ltd, Rehovot (IL)
Filed by EL-MUL TECHNOLOGIES LTD., Rehovot (IL)
Filed on Jun. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/342,636.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/036,959, filed on Jun. 9, 2020.
Int. Cl. G01T 1/20 (2006.01)
CPC G01T 1/20185 (2020.05) 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ion detection system for detecting incident ions comprising:
an ion-to-electron converter for converting incident ions to secondary electrons;
an accelerating assembly comprising at least one of: an electric field and a magnetic field for acceleration and transfer of the secondary electrons to a scintillator,
the scintillator for converting the accelerated secondary electrons to an initial flux of photons;
a photon channeling assembly including a first photon channel and a second photon channel, wherein the photon channeling assembly is configured for separating the initial flux of photons into at least a first photon flux channeled into the first photon channel and a second photon flux channeled into the second photon channel; and
at least one photodetector for detecting at least one of:
a first optical signal generated at the first photon channel, and
a second optical signal generated at the second photon channel.