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News Release from: Quadrant Connections
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 December 2006
Time-delay cable assemblies delivered on
time
Quadrant has completed a major contract to supply several thousand semirigid coaxial time-delay cable assemblies to the German Electron Synchrotron project.
Quadrant has completed a major contract to supply several thousand semirigid coaxial time-delay cable assemblies to the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) project, a major international research organisation based near Hamburg The contract was won against fierce competition from many countries and the task posed a challenging electronic and mechanical specification
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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In addition to the tight tolerances required to meet the mechanical demands, time delays produced by the cables had to be accurate to +/-5ps.
To achieve this Quadrant produced jigs to replicate the DESY equipment and then simplified the mechanics by removing several bends from the original design.
This allowed production volumes to be made on Quadrant's purpose-built three-axis bending machine and the result was the production of highly accurate and repeatable cables manufactured from tin-plated aluminium RG405/U.
Terminated with Telegartner gold-plated SMA plugs these assemblies achieved signal propagation delays of 667, 1000 and 1337ps with a tolerance of +/-3.5ps, exceeding the set target.
Quadrant Sales and Marketing Director, David Phillips, said: "This project confirms our position as a major player in the international semirigid cable assembly market and confirms our ability to produce assemblies in large volume at the highest standards of quality and accuracy".
DESY is one of the world's leading centres for research on particle accelerators offering a combination of particle physics and research with photons that is unique in Europe.
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