‘Optical Switches’
An Electronicstalk guide
Start with the news release Photo IC for optical switching applications from Hamamatsu Photonics, which we summarised at the time by saying "Hamamatsu Photonics has introduced a photo IC that is designed for optical switches and provides an analogue waveform output, proportional to the intensity of incident pulsed light. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release QDR and DDR SRAMs for reducing power consumption from Cypress Semiconductor: "Cypress Semiconductor has announced Quad Data Rate (QDR) and Double Data Rate (DDR) SRAMs at 36-Mbit and 18-Mbit densities, for networking use in medical imaging and military signal-processing.".
In December 2010, we covered the news from Master Distributors - take a look at Carling switches target transportation industry which says: "Master Distributors has announced that it now carries a range of switches, including rocker, toggle, pushbutton and rotary styles, manufactured by Carling Technologies.".
Take a look also at the news release from Cissoid, High-temperature data-transmission system unveiled, as well as DC/DC uModule PoL regulator for RAID systems from Linear Technology, and Ambient-light sensor suited for tablet PCs from Maxim Integrated Products.
Latest stories...
Stylebox includes recessed EMC mounting versions (December 2010)
Elma Electronic, a manufacturer of electronic packaging products, has expanded its offering for its Type 15 Stylebox to include versions for recessed EMC mounting.
Vandal-resistant switches enable access control (December 2010)
Bulgin's MPI range of illuminated vandal-resistant switches are said to be ideal for access-control and door-entry applications.
DC switch disconnectors for PV applications (December 2010)
A range of DC switch disconnectors and string boxes for photovoltaic (PV) applications is available from Switchtec.
Rugged coded switches for military applications (December 2010)
Elma Electronic is offering a rugged version of its type 07 line of coded switches for use in military/aerospace, portable medical, industrial automation, vision/imaging and mobile PC applications.
Yagi antenna used on near-space balloon project (December 2010)
Low Power Radio Solutions has provided a high-sensitivity, omnidirectional Yagi antenna to four amateur space enthusiasts who have now managed five high-altitude balloon flights into near space.
Mars P-Mosfet for high-temperature interfaces (December 2010)
Cissoid has announced the addition of Mars, a high-temperature 30V small-signal P-channel Mosfet transistor, to its Planet range of transistors and switches.
Laser Components offers AR coatings on fibres (December 2010)
Laser Components' fibre-optics customers can now benefit from anti-reflection coatings on fibres, which have a particularly positive effect in medical technology and material processing.
Tool enables evaluation of active optical devices (November 2010)
Anritsu's MP2100A/01A-090 Bit Rate Expansion option for its Bertwave MP2100A series enables the evaluation of various active optical devices from 125Mb/sec to 12.5 Gb/sec.
Further reading
- Multichannel optical switches cut their losses
Oki's mechanical multichannel optical switches incorporate micro-optics technology to achieve a maximum of 1.5dB insertion loss, thus eliminating the need for an optical amplifier. - Optical switches add reach to video signals
Optical switch specialist Polatis has released a new series of products for routing signals in the rapidly growing high definition video industry.
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