TY - JOUR N2 - The paper is a review of analog and digital electronics dedicated to monitor nanosecond pulses. Choosing the optimal peak detector construction depends on many factors for example precision, complexity, or costs. The work shows some virtues and limitations of selected peak detection methods, for example standard peak detector with rectifier, sample and hold circuit with triggering units and ADC fast acquisition. However, the main attention is paid to problems of results from effective triggering signal for sample and hold operation. The obtained results allow for designing a peak detector construction as an alternative for costly and very complex fast acquisition systems based on ADC and FPGA technologies. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116008/PDF/art01.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116008 PY - 2020 IS - No 2 EP - 218 DO - 10.24425/mms.2020.132770 KW - peak detection KW - pulse amplitude KW - free space optics KW - Constant fraction discriminator KW - leading edge discriminator KW - sample and hold KW - ADC KW - fast acquisition A1 - Achtenberg, Krzysztof A1 - Mikołajczyk, Janusz A1 - Szabra, Dariusz A1 - Prokopiuk, Artur A1 - Bielecki, Zbigniew PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Metrology and Scientific Instrumentation VL - vol. 27 DA - 2020.06.18 T1 - Review of peak signal detection methods in nanosecond pulses monitoring SP - 203 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/116008 T2 - Metrology and Measurement Systems ER -