SDS is to present its miniature high voltage converters for the research sector and industry at the Laser show in Munich

The only French designer of low and medium power high voltage converters, SDS is one of the two or three manufacturers in the world to supply ultra-miniature DC modules. Intended first of all for the electronic microscopy sector, they are fitted in small housing boxes and can be soldered directly to printed circuits; input voltages are 12, 15 or 24V and output voltages 200V to 4 kV with maximum power of 4W depending on the model. Voltages can be set by external potentiometer or analog input signal voltage programming. An original feature is that the boxes can be mounted vertically or flat.
They are used in fields such as electronic microscopy using photoelectronic detectors (e.g. photomultiplier tubes), semiconductor detectors (e.g. avalanche photodiodes) or light intensification systems (e.g. multi-channel plates). They can be supplied in standard versions or customised in Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) for advanced research and industrial applications.
SDS also develops in parallel larger modules that deliver rapid high voltage pulses for laser systems, mass spectroscopy and beam deviation. Drawn directly from SDS' unique know-how, these modules are used in a broad range of applications where a voltage of several kV must be commutated in a very short time. The boxes incorporate their own very high stability high voltage generator. They can be used to connect numerous devices with high capacitative loads at high impedance, especially in research applications.
SDS also supplies medical equipment maintenance companies with high voltage supply units previously mounted on nuclear medicine equipment manufactured by Sopha Medical Vision International (SMVI).
For operation in remote mode, the equipment designed and manufactured by SDS can incorporate RS232/RS485 serial interfaces or a GPIB link supporting the SCPI command protocol or be fitted with field bus adaptors for protocols as varied as Profibus-DP V0 and V1, CANopen, DeviceNet, Ethernet 10Mbits, Fast Ethernet 10/100Mbits, Interbus, Lonworks or I²C.