Diamond Light Source, the
UK’s national synchrotron
facility, has chosen PULS
power supplies to provide
power for 10 advanced
‘beamlines’ to be built at
Harwell in Oxfordshire
during the next six years.

PULS UK has been involved
in the project since 2004,
when there was a requirement
for a high-reliability Din Rail
power supply to deliver power
to 600 corrector units.

Beamlines generate
brilliant beams of light from
infrared to X-rays and are
used for a wide range of scientific
and industrial research
disciplines. The technology
allows scientists to study
objects such as molecules and
atoms, which are too small to
be viewed using optical
microscopes.

PULS power supplies
provide 24V n+1 highreliability
control power to
the many diverse pieces of
equipment that create a
beamline. These are used to
provide control, protection
and instrumentation for
various applications that
make up a large part of the 22
beamlines’ control structure.

They also provide bulk DC
power for the 700 steering
power supplies used to trim
the electron beam as it travels
at speeds approaching the
speed of light.