POSITIONING CONTROL

The XYZ-Goniometer series of four-axis stages from Optimal Engineering Systems Inc. feature four motor options. The devices, featuring +/- 10°, +/-15° or +/-45° of travel, can be...

The AMS 100i laser positioning system from Leuze electronic is designed for small installation spaces with a 105 × 68 × 75-mm footprint. Users can position with mm accuracy for up...

The AKD2G 24A servo drive from Kollmorgen Corp. is designed for precision multi-axis servo systems. Over its predecessors, the drive offers upgraded safety features, SD card backup, and a...

This high-precision 6-axis hexapod is a parallel kinematic motion device with a 125-mm diameter platform and 5-kg load capacity. It provides six degrees of freedom: X, Y, Z, pitch, roll, and yaw for...

A consortium led by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (Fraunhofer IZM) is using hollow-core optical fibers to develop a reliable method to transmit light to...

A recent demonstration by a team at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) spotlights the possibility of stable multiband lasing by rare-earth elements. In the work, the research team...

To realize the potential of personalized medicine and overcome crisis situations like the recent pandemic, labs need an efficient way to isolate living cells for analysis and testing. The ability to...

With the advent of the IoT, there is increased need to display large amounts of information to people quickly and without distortion in all types of lighting conditions. Though transmissive and...

One of the most critical elements of any time-resolved spectroscopy and dynamics experiment is the optical delay line. A typical optical delay line consists of a retroreflector or folding mirrors on...

In general, there are three common approaches to reducing mechanical excitation of photonic systems. The first is identifying the sources of vibration and implementing ways to eliminate or reduce...

By its original definition, a nanopositioning device is a mechanism capable of repeatedly delivering motion in increments as small as one nanometer. Lately demands from industry and research have...

Progressive assembly operations such as guiding, gluing and bonding often take place around a static package in three-dimensional space. Integrating the different mechanical systems to ensure that...

An overview of diSPIM

Nanoscale motion requires fastidious attention to instrumentation, passive controls, and experiment design. Most users have experience in motion control within the sphere of the microscale. In this...

The Lumispot Tech LSP-LRS-0310F is a compact and lightweight laser rangefinder module, notable for being the smallest of its kind, weighing only 33 g. It is a highly precise tool for measuring...

Researchers at Penn State University are spearheading a multidisciplinary research effort to explore ways to produce bioethanol more efficiently from lignocellulose. Importantly, this is not corn...

This webinar will discuss a new model for advanced microscopy, based on shareable, modular instruments. This model, called Flamingo, is designed to bridge the gap between biology and technology....

Alignment time is the largest contributor to the cost of silicon photonics and optical assemblies. New industrial automation technology dramatically shortens the time required to optimally align...

In today’s energy-challenged world, clean energy topics are increasingly important, particularly with solar cell designs reaching new efficiency breakthroughs. This webinar series shares the...

As fiber optics device manufacturing processes mature, the use of automated alignment, probing, and packaging equipment will become widespread. These automated technologies will greatly enhance the...

A visible laser beam generated coaxially with an infrared or other invisible laser beam to aid in its positioning.

In positioning, rotation about an axis normal to the line of sight. Also known as attitude.

Positioning generally refers to the determination or identification of the location or placement of an object, person, or entity in a specific space or relative to a reference point. The term is used...

The positioning of two Nicol prisms so that their axes are at right angles to each other. With this arrangement, light transmitted by one prism will not be transmitted by the other.

Established in 1990, Applied Scientific Instrumentation is a reknown American company committed to the advancement of science. ASI products have been thoroughly tested and evaluated in numerous labs...

As separate disciplines, quantum science and integrated photonics are pushing the bounds of possibility in communication science, compute, data processing, and more. In tandem, the two realms are...

A coordinate measuring microscope is an instrument used to measure the coordinates of a point on an object such as a photographic plate.

A micromanipulator is a device that provides means for accurately moving minuscule tools over the surface of a microscopic object. The skilled biologist using a micromanipulator is able to dissect...

Mad City Labs, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of piezo nanopositioning systems and instrumentation capable of sub-nanometer positioning resolution. Our product line of nanopositioners,...

Since 2005, SmarAct develops piezo-based, high-performance positioners and measurement tools for the micro- and nanometer scale. Positioning systems with numerous degrees of freedom and parallel...

For over 100 years, Prior Scientific has been manufacturing precision optical and electro-mechanical equipment and instrumentation. Prior is a leader in the development of precision motion,...

As a provider of precision automation and motion control systems, Aerotech offers a complete range of motion and automation solutions to our clients. Our standard product offerings include: ...