Solid State Supplies offers pulsed xenon light sources for instrumentation
Able to generate continuous spectrum light, pulsed xeon light sources from Excelitas can be used in analytical instrumentation. The Excelitas PAX compact, integrated light sources contain a flash lamp, trigger circuit and power supply in an EMI-suppressant enclosure.
Xenon flash lamps are confined arc flashlamps which produce microsecond to millisecond duration pulses of broadband light of high radiant intensities. Capable of operating at high repetition rates, the Excelitas PAX flashlamps generate light over a continuous spectrum from ultraviolet to infrared, at very high powers from 2W/25mJ to 60W/1J.
The precision-aligned xenon light engine modules are suitable for clinical diagnostic, in-vitro diagnostics, life sciences, drug discovery, proteomics as well as analytical instrumentation applications.
Included in the offering is the uPAX-3, the next generation 2W pulsed xenon light source, with a robust design which is 17 per cent smaller than the predecessor, the uPAX-2. The electronics and a precision aligned flash lamp are packaged into a single light source capable of providing broadband light in microsecond pulses with “exceptional arc stability”, claims the company.
Lorna Lawson, Excelitas product manager at Solid State Supplies, said: “These miniaturised modules can offer significant advantages over LEDs in analytical instrumentation and similar applications, particularly with regard to the broad and continuous spectrum of the light output.”
According to Mark Gaston, product manager at Excelitas: “uPAX-3 features guaranteed stability less than one per cent and precision arc alignment for easy integration and improved overall performance – all in a more robust and compact design compared to our uPAX-2”. He added that the uPAX-3 can be used by product designers and engineers developing small form factor analytical systems for point of care and field use applications such as medical analytics, water quality monitoring and environmental analysis.
Excelitas Technologies manufactures photonic solutions to meet the illumination, optical, optronic, sensing, detection and imaging needs of OEM and end-user customers. The company serves an array of applications across biomedical, scientific, semiconductor, industrial manufacturing, safety, security, consumer products, defence and aerospace sectors. Teams work across North America, Europe and Asia, to serve customers worldwide.
Solid State Supplies (part of Solid State plc) is a technical, franchised distributor serving the UK electronics community.
Solid State Supplies sells semiconductors, related components and modules for embedded processing, control and communications (both wireless and wired), sensing and switching, power management, and LED lighting. Focusing on products from a limited number of suppliers, the company understands its products in depth and offers customers outstanding levels of commercial and technical support. Solid State Supplies has particular expertise in end-to-end IoT solutions using modules, finished products and cloud connectivity, sensing and switching for Electric Vehicles and high-reliability components for military and aerospace applications, and sensing and switching for electric vehicles.
Solid State Supplies’ Quality Management System accords with ISO 9001: 2015, AS9120, and AS9100.
