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Clock distribution system for large high altitude air shower observatory

NUCLEAR ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION

Clock distribution system for large high altitude air shower observatory

CAO Zhe
LIU Shubin
LI Cheng
AN Qi
Nuclear Science and TechniquesVol.22, No.6pp.353-357Published in print 20 Dec 2011
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In this paper, we report a clock distribution system for Water Cherenkov Detector Arrays (WCDAs) in Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project. The designed electronics system is of high performance in implementing the clock distribution among detectors of a large scale of dimension. Based on Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and fiber transmission, the clock distribution system is the modules of central back end to distributed front end. The clock distribution system has been evaluated with a two modules system. While all the four SerDes candidates for clock transmission with jitters below 17 ps, the DS92LV16 has a fixed phase relationship between transmission clock and recovered clock, hence its use in LHAASO WCDAs.

LHAASOClock distributionDistributed architectureSerializer/Deserializer
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