Monday, March 1, 2010
BNC Outfits Lab with 32 Channels of Precision Timing
Berkeley Nucleonics, a manufacturer of pulse and delay generators, arbitrary waveform generators and frequency counters, was selected by a European research establishment to provide a large timing system for laser timing and triggering in new experimental efforts on high energy, high power lasers and hot plasmas. The timing of the BNC Model 588, which combines 8 channels of delay and width in a rack mount module less than 2 inches high, allows researchers to combine 100’s of channels of timing in a small area. The timing properties and features of the BNC Digital Delay Generators (250 picosecond resolution, improved 200 picosecond low jitter, channel by channel rate and amplitude selection). Major goal of research in this field include thermonuclear fusion for energy production, materials processing, physics of high-energy-density matter and planetary science.
Berkeley Nucleonics has a long history of supporting research in Europe. It’s first products were shipped to Germany in the 1960’s. Soon after, customers from the UK, France and Spain also began ordering Berkeley Nucleonics pulse and delay generators. The company has local service and support in 9 European Union member states and can address a broad range of customer and off-the-shelf test, measurement or nuclear instrumentation requirements. Read more at the company website