On one of class of electrostatic fields with the time space focusing control (1989)

In this article the new (at that point in time — 1989) class of electrostatic fields in which is carried out the time space focusing control in the direction of ions separation by times of flight is determined and its characteristics are analyzed. The global approach to the synthesis of potentials with ideal time space focusing control, which one was afterwards with great success used by Yu.K. Golikov during synthesis of concrete configurations for multiturn time-of-flight mass-analyzers, is described. The field, having been examined in this work as a basic example, became wildly known because of using it afterwards in the new class of mass-spectrometer devices — electrostatic traps with Fourier analysis (trade mark "ORBITRAP").