Armstrong Optical Ltd

Armstrong Optical has announced that it will be attending the forthcoming Photonex 2008 and Machine Vision and Imaging Sciences exhibitions taking place at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry in mid-October.

Sydor Instruments has been awarded a major contract to supply nine Optical Streak Cameras to the UK government. The cameras will be an integral part of Project Orion, a new research centre at AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) in Aldermaston, UK.

By combining a high speed DC-motor with a piezo-driven rotary motor on a backlash-free ball screw Feinmess Dresden GmbH of Germany have developed a linear stage with a very wide speed range, high positional accuracy and low settling time.

The new LSV laser-interferometric vibrometer from SIOS Messtechnik GmbH, supplied in the UK by Armstrong Optical Ltd., is the ideal instrument for accurate, non-contact determination of temporal changes in the positions of objects or surfaces of arbitrary roughness. It detects mechanical vibrations at frequencies ranging from 0 to 500 kHz with subnanometer resolution.

Palm sized and weighing-in at less than 300g, the IR528 from Armstrong Optical of Northampton is one of the smallest and lightest thermal imaging systems available on the market.

Armstrong Optical Ltd announces the immediate availability of a new catalogue describing the complete range of extreme resolution positioning and manipulation systems from SmarAct GmbH. The core competence of SmarAct GmbH is the development of miniaturised positioners that meet the highest demands of precision and control.

The new MPLS180 sensor from Armstrong Optical Ltd of Northampton is now available allowing the fast, high-resolution 3D scanning of surfaces for all types of applications - ranging from wrinkles on skin to complete, populated, printed circuit boards.

Newly available from Armstrong Optical Ltd of Northampton is the RUBY non-contact spectrocolourimetry system that is able to supply up to 2000 spectra per second for the analysis of, for example, reflectance of diffusing materials, intensity and colour of light sources and displays, and the transmittance of filters and liquids.

Claimed to be the world’s smallest closed loop nanopositioning system, the SL-1720-S available from Armstrong Optical of Northampton is the latest in a series of piezo stepper drive systems developed by SmarAct GmbH of Germany.