01-03-2011 04:48 PM
Hello,
I have built a VI that is used to measure voltage from an amplifier connected to a photomultiplier tube. The PMT reads a fluorescent light signal and sends it to the amplifier, which converts current to voltage. I get a pretty decent signal reading, but I want to cut down the background noise that shows up. For some reason, the background noise starts around 1.5V and randomly oscillates between 1.42 volts and 1.54V. I am trying to find a way to cut down the noise so my readings are a little more clean. I have attached my VI and a picture of the resulting graphs I get from a typical data run. The left graph shows background noise in a 4second interval, and the right graph shows the complete run.
Any help, suggestions or comments is very much appreciated. Thank you!
01-03-2011 05:18 PM
It seems like you have plenty of S/N and can just use a peak detector to get at the essential data.
Otherwise you could try a median filter but it could easily wipe out your peaks if you are not careful.
01-03-2011 07:02 PM
Looks pretty clean to me. Just curious, why do you need it to look cleaner than that?