BNC Celebrates 25 Year Partnership with PT Systems

Berkeley Nucleonics (BNC) President David Brown visited one of it's California contract manufacturing firms last week to celebrate 25 years of cooperation. PT Systems Inc (Concord, CA) is a select manufacturer for Berkeley Nucleonics, manufacturing BNC designs in Test, Measurement and Nuclear Research. "Using local manufacturing allows us to easily interface on design, specifications and mechanical issues", comments Brown.

Model 575 - AT45-High Voltage – 45V Pulses with Fast Risetimes

This new output stage for the Model 575 Digital Delay / Pulse Generator increases max pulse amplitudes to 45V. The company has used modern circuitry to achieve these higher voltages with the same pulse generator architecture, resulting in a low cost for the dual channel output stage. The 45V pulses have risetimes <2.0 nS and pulse widths as wide as 10 seconds, with repetition rates up to 100 KHz. The performance achievements enable faster testing of high power lasers systems and enable developments in laser diode drivers and pump lasers. Other applications which benefit are capacitor banks, semiconductor assay and pyrotechnics detonations. Sled tests and high speed cameras, shutters and frame-grabbers all have potential benefits with the fast high voltage pulser.

"While we have offered pulsers up to 1000 Volts for quite some time, the fast risetimes and rep rates in the Model AT45 introduce new functionality customers have asked for. We can upgrade units in the field or offer the systems new for under three thousand dollars", comments Applications Engineer John Yee.

"The higher voltage outputs come at a time when customers are reluctant to purchase additional capital equipment and are looking for expanding the functionality of their existing product. We are pleased with the results."

Labview Support for Model 1105

Labview Support - Berkeley Nucleonics now offers a Labview Driver for the Model 1105 Universal Frequency Counter and Time Interval Counter. The Model 1105 is a full featured measurement tool for test benches ranging from simply hobbiests to the most demanding, double-digit picosecond measurements. The Universal Counter also handles measurements of frequency, frequency ratios, pulse widths, duty cycle, rise and fall times, phase, event counts, voltage peaks and mean (min/max) with standard deviations. See more at www.berkeleynucleonics.com