Our SP-Series miniature plane-mirror interferometers are precision
length measurement instruments designed for incorporation
into customer supplied systems, and are readily adapted to
suit a wide variety of experimental setups and tasks. The
miniaturized sensor head allows their employment as permanently
installed metrological systems.
Planar mirrors or other optical-quality reflective surfaces may be
employed as reflectors on their translating arms, and may be
angularly misaligned by as much as several minutes of arc with
respect to the laser beam without adversely affecting the
operation of the interferometer. The beam from the laser light
source is transmitted to the sensor head by a fiberoptic cable.
The miniature interferometer converts motions of the planar
mirror along the beam axis into optical interference signals that
are transmitted to an optoelectronic signal processing/power
supply unit for processing and output as lengths.
Instrument operation and display of measurement results are
controlled either through a separate keypad/display unit or a
PC running an optional software package.
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• Ultraprecise length measurement
• Single beam design minimizes Abbe
aberrations when correctly aligned
• Versatile instruments for incorporation
customer supplied systems, readily
suit a wide variety of tasks
• Fiberoptic coupled sensor head
• A planar mirror or other reflective
be employed as the moving reflector
• Objects being measured may wander
beam axis if the mirror or other reflective
surface employed is sufficiently large
• Low heat loss to the environment
• Employs frequency-stabilized HeNe
light sources
• Corrects for variations in laser wavelength
caused by ambient conditions
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• Precision laser interferometric length
measurement systems for incorporation into,
or calibrating, translation stages, microscope
stages, positioning stages, metrological
equipment, machine tools, or hardness testing
and materials testing equipment
• Single/dual/multi-axis coordinate
measurements
• Dual-coordinate measurements in a single
plane on, e.g., plane tables
• Calibrating length measurement
instrumentation
• Runout and eccentricity measurements
• Noncontact surface profiling
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