15 August 2013

Fujikura Ltd. (Yoichi Nagahama, President & CEO) announces that the company will release optical Camera Link cable assemblies, the FOCLF series, for long distance transmission of high resolution and high speed signals from industrial digital cameras this month

The company has been a provider of the active optical cable assemblies, the FOCLB series which comply with the Camera Link standard, and has been receiving favorable reputations. Utilizing optical transmission technologies, the FOCLB series are able to transmit image signals up to 100 meters.

The cable assemblies which will be released this month conform to Full Configuration (8bit-8tap) which is an upper connection configuration for transmitting high resolution signals in Camera Link standard. They realize maximum 100 meters transmission of high resolution and high speed signals by using two cable assemblies- an FOCLF cable and an FOCLB cable.

The main features are as follows.

• The maximum transmission distance which is restricted up to 10 meters in Camera Link standard is extended up to 100 meters without applying repeater.
• The electrical interface is the same as the one for the conventional metal cable.
• The cable assemblies have power supply functions to cameras.
• The cables are more flexible than conventional metal cables and easier to handle.
• High flex cycles cables are available as an option.

Camera Link:
Camera Link is standardized by AIA (Automated Imaging Association) in the USA. It is one of the interface standards to transmit image signals output from industrial digital cameras to image processing boards.