LAS With New Quick-Attach LAS-Profiler™

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OATi customers who own a Laser Alignment and Assembly System (LAS) with motorized and encoded rotary air bearing now have the option of adding 3D Surface Profiling capability. This is possible with a new quick-attach LAS-Profiler™ module that can be installed in less than five minutes. The LAS-Profiler™ module will map the 3D surface topography of rotationally symmetric surfaces such as diamond turned or molded lenses, including aspheres. Installing the LAS-Profiler™ module to the standard LAS Z-axis, nanometer-level precision profiling is achieved along the surface of the lens being mapped. This is made possible using a chromatic confocal single point sensor with 10 nm axial and 1 µm lateral resolutions respectively.

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LAS-Profiler™ reliably measures lenses from 1mm to 100mm diameter, with Sag (peak to valley) less than 25mm and slopes less than 70 degrees from normal. Throughput is governed by the number of datapoints required. A quick quality assurance check on a sample out of a production batch can be completed within minutes using a simple cross-cut evaluation, as shown in the figure below.