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Bentham Instruments
UKAEA Diagnostic Challenge Drives New Product Development
| “We’ve learnt a lot from working with the UKAEA. Achieving high uniformity and high luminosity across a large window without it being expensive and over-large is quite a technical achievement,” Mike Clark, Sales Director, Bentham Instruments. |
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The search for a calibration light source for MAST optical diagnostics has led UK company Bentham Instruments to expand its product range and win new business as a result. The project resulted in the development of the Bentham Instruments ULS300, a uniform light source integrating-sphere providing variable luminance at constant colour temperature along with the uniformity needed to calibrate wide-angle optics.
Neil Conway, Fusion Research Physicist at Culham has been working with Mike Clark at Bentham Instruments to develop the new integrating-sphere source. “The ULS300 gives UKAEA researchers a compact light source with excellent uniformity and as such it is a
significant improvement on other techniques for calibrating our wide angle optics” explains Neil, “and we can further improve the uniformity by modifying the optical fibre bundles so that they launch light into the sphere obliquely.” Mike Clark and his team are currently working on the refinement.
The ULS300 is a highly specialist instrument but we’ve already sold several to non-fusion customers and have prospects from around the world for further sales,” Mike Clark noted.
For further information visit www.bentham.co.uk
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