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QuickPOZ - Optomechanical Mounts

The QuickPOZ optical mount and breadboard line-up addresses the need for robust optomechanical prototyping.

INO QuickPOZ optomechanical mounts

Description

Using these self-positioning optomechanical mounts is a cost-effective way of rapidly assembling prototypes that will remain aligned under even the harshest operating and transport conditions. All mounts have been designed to be operated in a typical ground transport vehicle vibration environment while maintaining pointing stability under ±50 µrad.

Nominal positioning of all optics on the breadboard is easy with our QuickPOZ technology, since each mount can be located with high position repeatability using removable reference balls on INO’s special breadboard. These mounts integrate patent-pending technologies that enable users to position all optical components within ±50 µm @ 2 sigma of any mount assembled on the same breadboard in relation to the nominal optical axis. Because the mounts are automatically aligned once fixed to the breadboard, the alignment time is reduced to a minimum.

The mounts included in the QuickPOZ line-up can be used from the early prototyping to the small series phase.

High accuracy threaded reference balls are temporarily installed on INO’s proprietary breadboard to locate each mount with respect to the others. Threaded holes in the breadboard are precision machined to allow precise positioning of all mounts. To round out component positioning, each mount has been designed with tight tolerance reference characteristics.

The lenses are auto-centered on the mounts using our patent-pending QuickCTR-edge technology, which is based on the geometrical relationship between the retaining ring standard thread angle and the lens contact seat radius.

Applications

  • Laser beam delivery system
  • Spectrometers
  • Optical delay lines
  • OCT (optical coherence tomography)
  • FTIRs (Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy)
  • Metrology optical devices
  • Interferometers
  • Vision systems
  • Optical processing units
  • Illumination systems
  • Projection systems

Main specifications

  • Survival Temperature -46 °C to 63°C
  • Survival Vibration 7.7 Grms
  • Shocks 30 G minimum, without shipping packaging
  • Optomechanical Mount Compatibility Compatible with standard threads 0.535’’-40, 1.035’’-40, and 2.035’’-40 and RMS
  • Operating Temperature -40°C to +50°C
  • Storage temperature -46°C to +63°C
  • Optical Axis Positioning Accuracy ±0.05 mm between the optical axis of any opto- mechanical mount with respect to the nominal optical axis of the breadboard assembly
  • Mirror Surface Deformations Induced by Mount ≤ lambda/10 PV @ 633 nm over the clear aperture
  • Dimensional Pointing Stability Over the Operating Temperature Range ≤ ±50 μrad (mechanical angle)
  • Mounting Repeatability ≤ ±0.015 mm in positioning
  • Shipping Vibrations Impact on Angular Positioning ≤ ±50 μrad (mechanical angle)

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