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Fibre optic laser encoder is easy to install
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Micromech product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Jul 12, 2004
Fibre optic laser encoder, an interferometer-based system designed to produce high resolution, linear position feedback signals, is easy as traditional tape and glass based encoders to install.
Micromech is pleased to introduce the revolutionary Renishaw RLE fibre optic laser encoder, an interferometer-based system designed to produce high resolution, linear position feedback signals, whilst maintaining an ease of installation comparable with traditional tape and glass based encoders.
The system provides both dual or single axis capability from a single laser source and uses fibre optic links to transport the laser beam directly to the axis measuring position.
This facility radically reduces the external optical path complexity associated with other laser interferometers, which require a combination of optical components and precision mounts to deliver the beam to the axis.
By comparison this system requires only one additional optic mounted on the moving element of the axis.
To further simplify installation, the RLE encoder system incorporates an optical beam-steerer, reducing laser alignment to a simple 'bolt down and dial in' process.
With axis lengths of up to one metre and when using plane mirrors, it is ideal for X-Y stages, wafer inspection machines, machine tools, CMMs, precision gauges, glass grinding machines and other precision motion systems.
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