FEMTO Introduces New High Speed Charge Amplifier HQA and USB Control Interface LUCI-10

Berlin - June 14, 2010 - FEMTO Introduces
New High Speed Charge Amplifier HQA and
New USB Control Interface LUCI-10

FEMTO Messtechnik GmbH introduces the new high speed charge amplifier HQA-15M-10T and the new USB control interface LUCI-10.

The new high speed charge amplifier HQA-15M-10T is designed for signal sources like tuning fork quartzes and length extension resonators producing a modulated charge signal. The amplifier works over a wide operating range from 250 Hz up to 15 MHz at a very high gain of 10 V/pC. Combined with the low input noise of 40 x 10^-21 C/√Hz charge measurements down to the Femto and Pico Coulomb range can be achieved. The compact housing allows use close to the signal source for optimum signal to noise ratio. The HQA-15M-10T is used for sensitive measurements in the field of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and for beam monitoring in particle physics.

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The new USB control interface LUCI-10 establishes the link between any FEMTO amplifier or photoreceiver with 25 pin D-Sub interface and a Windows® PC with USB port. In addition to the manual control by switches directly on the device, all main amplifier functions like gain, sensitivity and time constant can now be set directly from a PC. The interface supports opto-isolation of the PC USB port from the signal path of the connected FEMTO amplifier to guarantee signal integrity and low noise performance. The LUCI-10 electronics is fully integrated inside the D-Sub hood and bus-powered through the USB port. It comes with an extensive software package containing the necessary DLL driver and software examples like Graphic User Interfaces (GUI's), sample VI's and a FEMTO Library to help generate your own control software in a LabVIEW™ environment.