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Rugged 100Gbit/s optical transceiver is solderless

Cinch optical hybrid

Cinch Connectivity Solutions has announced a 100Gbit/s optical transceiver, intended for tough environments including aerospace, industrial and military. H28-100G-SR4 has four transmit and four receive channels, each rated at 25.78Gbit/s. For ease of installation and replacement, the package has a square array of flat pads underneath and it mounts to a similar array on the associated PCB via a guide ...

Melexis adds compact auto LED drivers for ambient lighting

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Melexis has extended its LIN RGB automotive LED driver offering with the MLX81123 offering cost-effective performance and reliability in a small package. Ambient LED lighting is now a key design feature for automotive manufacturers, enhancing the end-user’s experience and helping OEMs to provide striking visual distinction. With well known OEMs utilising ambient lighting extensively across their latest models, maintaining a ...

PCIM: 24 channel LED driver for vehicles

Novosense package

Novosense Microelectronics announced a 24 channel automotive LED driver at PCIM in Nuremberg today. NSL21924 is a high-side driver, aimed at rear lights, exterior lights and general automotive interior and body lighting. 16 channel NSL21916 is also available. Qualification is to AEC-Q100 Grade 1 (Tj = -40 to +150°C). The LED supply voltage can be across 3 to 16V, and ...

ICFUST: Far-UVC LED for killing germs

Silanna SF1-3M1FWL1 UVC led

Silanna UV will launch a 235nm LED at ICFUST 2024, the International Congress on Far-UVC Science and Technology. SF1-3M1FWL1 is a 700mW input (30mA, 23.5V nominal) device that typically emits 3mW of UV radiation at that current. typical emission angle is 125°. Packaging is 6.8 x 6.8 x 1.38mm surface-mount. “This LED is effective for surface disinfection, air purification, medical ...

Fast opto-couplers block 50kV/µs for industrial PLCs

Toshiba high-speed industrial photo-coupler package

Toshiba is aiming at industrial programmable logic controllers with fast surface-mount photocouplers that have hysteresis in the signal path. They are amplified types with threshold detection and an open-drain output. Operation is across -40 to +125°C and the secondary side will run from between 2.7 and 5.5V, consuming ~1mA. Operation is specified at 3.3 and 5V. Input-referred hysteresis is typically ...

Five different IR LEDs and a photodiode in the same package for spectroscopy

Marktech MTMD142345PDT38 multi led photodiode combo

Marktech had revealed the latest in its line of sensors which combine many LEDs of different wavelengths with a photodiode. MTMD142345PDT38 has five LEDs at 1.04, 1.2, 1.3, 1.46 and 1.55μm, plus an InGaAs photodiode sensitive across 600 – 1,750nm, all individually addressable and hermetically sealed into a TO-5 metal can. This short-wave infra-red (SWIR) combinations is “ideal for infrared ...

Sponsored content: Extended assortment of Mean Well products

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Over the last decades, Mean Well has become one of the most recognisable global providers of power supply modules and converters. However, its product range also includes a broad selection of other solutions, such as KNX equipment for building automation systems. The assortment described below includes modules compatible with the KNX system, i.e. a standard applied in home and industrial ...

Industrial colour and mono cameras with Sony IMX662 sensor

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Imaging Development Systems (IDS) is offering Sony’s IMX662 1/2.45 inch 2.16 Mpixel sensor in both colour and monochrome cameras. U3-38C0XCP comes in a completely closed 29 x 29 x 17mm zinc die-cast housing with an integral C-mount lens holder. “The sensors belonging to Sony’s Starvis 2 series are designed for maximum light sensitivity,” according to IDS. “We offer this rolling ...

TO-8 SPAD has internal cooling for low dark count

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Hamamatsu Photonics has launched a TO-8 canned SPAD (single photon avalanche photodiode) with an in-built thermoelectric cooler. Called S16835, there are two models, which differ in the width* of their sensors: 54µm or 100µm. In standard operating conditions (25°C ambient, -20°C SPAD) typical dark currents are 15 or 60 count/s respectively (50 or 200 count/s max). Terminal capacitance and gain ...