Time between the application of a laser pulse and the start of detection in
laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy.
Notes: - The gate delay varies from some hundreds of nanoseconds to several microseconds.
- Use of a suitable gate delay allows the high intensity background continuum emission present in the early stages of plasma formation to be removed.
Source:
PAC, 2021, 93, 647. 'Glossary of methods and terms used in analytical spectroscopy (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)' on page 719 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0203)