Miniature single-axis mirror positioning system boasts smallest size, easiest operation
Miniature piezoelectric smart stage — a rotary micro stage with built-in controller — enables simple, precise point-to-point beam steering
Custom micro beam steering solutions
New Scale’s miniature M3 beam steering modules are designed for precise point-to-point positioning and dynamic movements up to 1K Hz. The direct-drive piezoelectric motors inside the modules hold position with zero power and no servo jitter. The effects of external vibrations on the mirror position are highly damped. M3 smart modules have fully-integrated closed loop controllers and communicate directly with your system processor over a standard serial interface. They have low drive voltage and low power use, making them ideal for portable instruments. This tech bulletin describes three types of beam steering solutions: a two-mirror system with galvo-type motion, a single-mirror solution with a tilting around a central pivot, and a dual-wedge Risley device.
SEE ALSO: our standard M3-RS rotary stages for beam steering using a familiar galvano-scanner style form factor.
Precision micro beam-steering systems simplify move to handheld instruments
Article in Laser Focus World magazine: Fully integrated and miniaturized “point-to-point” beam steering system bypasses the issues with MEMS-based approaches and addresses the needs of many emerging markets in medicine and industry.
New Scale’s M3-LS Smart Stage is finalist in 2015 EE Times & EDN ACE Awards
The ACE Awards, presented by EE Times and EDN, showcase the best of the best in today’s electronics industry.
ECN Impact Award for mechatronic module
New Scale Technologies won the 2015 ECN Impact Award for Electromechanical / Mechanical Devices with the M3-LS Linear Smart Stage, one of the company’s innovative all-in-one micromechatronic modules.
Advances in Micromechatronics Promote All-in-One Positioning Modules
Article in Photonics Spectra magazine: Smart motion technologies can reduce system size and simplify integration, enabling smaller photonic instruments with full performance.
Manipulator Design and Operation of a Six-Degree-of-Freedom Handheld Tremor-Canceling Microsurgical Instrument
Technical paper published in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics by Sungwook Yang, R.A. MacLachlan and C.N. Riviere; Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Inside the M3 all-in-one smart module
Piezo motor, built-in controller and precision mechanical guides create a complete, tiny, and precise motion module. An M3 smart module has everything you need integrated right into the module. It is the smallest, easiest-to-integrate motion solution and...
Developer’s kit now available: tiny all-in-one focus solution helps OEMs miniaturize analytical imaging systems
M3-FS smart module delivers high-precision focus in tiny footprint; helps OEMs miniaturize cameras for medical, industrial and commercial applications. Buy developer’s kits at Digi-Key and Mouser.
