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. 2012 Oct 9;12(10):13545–13566. doi: 10.3390/s121013545

Table 1.

Results of the temperature correction of the DELAY2 unit.


Cable section No.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Uncorrected average delay (ps) 2,297 2,204 4,030 4,338 3,074 5,313 5,980 6,696 7,284 7,942
Std deviation (ps) 51 44 84 88 66 120 125 141 151 169
Relative error 2.23% 2.00% 2.09% 2.04% 2.15% 2.25% 2.10% 2.10% 2.08% 2.13%

Average individually corrected delay to 20 °C (ps)—Equation (11) 2,290 2,197 4,017 4,325 3,064 5,295 5,961 6,674 7,260 7,916
Std deviation (ps) 6 5 11 7 7 14 10 14 12 18
Relative error 0.27% 0.23% 0.27% 0.17% 0.24% 0.26% 0.17% 0.22% 0.17% 0.22%

Unit temperature drift, dtTdTtT (1/°C) −1.23E−3 −1.11E−3 −1.15E−3 −1.13E−3 −1.19E−3 −1.24E−3 −1.16E−3 −1.16E−3 −1.15E−3 −1.18E−3

Universally corrected delay to 20 °C using mean unity temperature drift (ps) 2,289 2,196 4,015 4,322 3,062 5,293 5,958 6,671 7,257 7,913
Std deviation (ps) 7 6 12 10 8 17 12 17 15 21
Relative error 0.31% 0.27% 0.31% 0.22% 0.28% 0.33% 0.21% 0.26% 0.21% 0.26%