Displacement sensor from attocube warrants honorable mention (VIDEO)
San Jose, CA--In this video from the 2012 CLEO show floor, attocube systems AG (Munich, Germany) explains its interferometric displacement sensor system, which received an honorable mention in the 2012 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards.
The extremely compact, non-invasive, and multiple-channel interferometric displacement sensor system from attocube aystems AG can detect the spatial position change of a device in translational motion with high precision and megahertz bandwidth.
Unlike existing displacement sensors, the attocube sensor is extremely compact as it is entirely based on optical fiber technology operating at telecommunications wavelengths. The patented sensing heads are small enough (sub-centimeter) to fit in tight spaces, and the optical signal containing the interferometric information for displacement is collected remotely through the same telecom fiber that ports the laser light to the sensing head. A quadrature signal of the interferometric beats is generated using a patented technique that measures both the displacement and its direction.
The 2012 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards program is designed to honor the most timely, groundbreaking products in the field of photonics and laser science. The awards are sponsored by Laser Focus World and the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO).
Each year, Innovation Award entrants are challenged to show how their application, service, or product (launched between September 2010 and March 2012 for the 2012 awards) met several key criteria, including significant impact to the photonics industry, overall excellent functionality and long life expectancy, secure patent position, and above all, an exceptional level of innovation.
SOURCE: Laser Focus World; www.laserfocusworld.com
Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)
Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.