Reflectometer D17

D17 is the first ILL dedicated reflectometer and it has been designed to be as flexible as possible in resolution and modes of operation. The instrument is suitable for the analysis of surface structures in solids and solid/liquid interfaces. Horizontal surface experiments, such as free liquids, will suffer from a severe restriction in Q-range and flux and are thus not recommended for this instrument.

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d17_he3corr

function d17_he3corr,win,params,tol=tol

                LAMP function to correct polarization analysis data taken with the He3 filter

 NECESSARY VARIABLES:

                win=workspace with the data, must have the four polarization states as

                                [[I00],[I01],[I10],[I11]]

                params=the fitted parameters to phi and trans

                                This can be a 1 or 2D array,

                                                the second row in a 2D array is the error on the parameter                          

                                params[0]=initial time for filter (t0)

                                params[1]=initial polarization of 3He gas (P0He)

                                params[2]=decay time of cell (t1)

                                params[3]=polarizer inefficiency (p1)

                                params[4]=gas pressure ([3He])

                                params[5]=wavelength   (lambda)

                                params[6]=first flipper efficiency (f1)

                                params[7]=second flipper efficiency (f2)

                                Cell thickness is fixed at 10 cm

OPTIONAL VARIABLES:

                tol=the tolerance in the time for the measurement in seconds.

                                The correction requires a time of measurement for the 4 flipper states

                                This is taken as the average time of measurement.

                                There will be some variation on the calculated average,  normally +/- a second or two

                                If you have  problem, tol=2 should cover this and allow a proper correction to be made

                                If the data falls outside this tolerance, an error message will be sent

                                The default tolerance is 1e-7 seconds.

                e.g. w5=d17_he3corr(w4,p,tol=2)