Photon Counting Controls
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This page describes photon counting controls for the NI FlexRIO 5771 high speed digitizer module.
| Integration Mode | Photon Counting Mode | 
This GUI is opened from the Main Window menu. View > Photon Counting Controls
See Photon Counting for more information.
Note
More information about Photon Counting can be found on the Photon Counting concept page.
Photon Counting Controls
| Uniform Pixel Bin Size | Disables the geometry correction for the non-uniform resonant scanning speed (see Line Formation) | 
Photon Counting Controls - Integration Mode
| Differentiate Before Integration | Apply centered differentiation on signal for photo current integration | 
| Absolute Value BeforeIntegration | Take the absolute value on signal for photo current integration | 
| Enable Integration Threshold | Ignore any values below threshold for photo current integration | 
| Integration Threshold | Value of integration threshold (in ADC units) | 
| Disable Mask Averaging | Disables the division after sample binning (see Line Formation). | 
Photon Counting Controls - Photon Counting Mode
| Configure Photon Discriminator | Shows the photon discriminator GUI | 
| Show Photon Histogram | Shows the photon histogram | 
| Photon Selection Mask | For time correlated photon counting; Binary mask that selects photons after laser pulse used to display in channel | 
| Disable Mask Averaging | Disables the division after sample binning (see Line Formation). Should be ON for photon counting. | 
Photon Discriminator
| Grab Data | Grab raw digitizer data. (Sync) | 
| Save Configuration | Save the current photon configurator settings to disk | 
| Load Configuration | Load photon configurator settings from disk | 
| Signal Conditioning | Click into box to open configuration dialog | 
| Scale by Power of 2 | Scale signal by 2^x | 
| Offset | Offset signal by x | 
| Differentiate | Apply centered differentiation filter (0: disabled, 1: enabled) | 
| FIR Filter Enable | Enable/Disable the FIR filter | 
| Filter Coefficients | Click in FIR filter plot to open dialog. Maximum of 32 taps, filter values must be integers | 
| Photon Discriminator | Click into box to open configuration dialog | 
| Peak Threshold | Threshold for photon detection | 
| Peak Window | Window size (in samples) for peak detection, must be odd number | 
| Debounce | Debounce samples | 
| Plots | Mouse wheel zooms, drag with mouse to pan | 
| Yellow threshold line | Drag with mouse to set photon peak threshold | 
| Photon | Click on detected photons, drag window and debounce line to adjust values |