Figure 3
Numerical simulations of ion trajectories (blue lines) in the ion TOF spectrometer, varying the angle of their initial momentum from the x-axis. The cross-cuts of the cylindrically symmetric spectrometer's components are shown by black lines, labelled (see also Fig. 2), and the applied voltages shown. The multicoloured curves represent isopotential surfaces, from red (most negative) to violet (most positive) values. Panel (a): trajectories of the N+ atomic ions with 4 eV initial kinetic energy, created in a point source. Voltages are optimized for best momentum imaging (see text for details). Panel (b): same conditions as for panel (a) with the added extraction pulse delay of 500 ns. Panel (c): same conditions as for panel (a), except using the lens voltage corresponding to the settings in the reported experiment in Figs. 5 and 6. |