CPC G01T 1/20185 (2020.05) | 21 Claims |
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.
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