Integration of Nano- and Micropositioning Drives

Voice Coil Drives: Fast LinearDrives for Scanning Applications Voice coil drives offer highscanning rates with travelranges in the centimeter rangein a very small package. Standard systems like the V-106 can be controlled directly from the C-880.

Piezo Actuators

Photonics Applications

Nanopositioning & Scanning Systems

The C-880 has its roots in the F-206 HexAlign Hexapod pho- tonics alignment systems (see p. 8-8) and has integrated rou- tines like fast scans conceivedfor aligning or scanning fiberoptic components.

Active Optics / Steering Mirrors Tutorial: Piezo- electrics in Positioning Capacitive Position sensors Piezo Drivers & Nano- positioning controllers Hexapods / Micropositioning
The F-130.3SD Hybrid Fiber Alignment System permits rapid XYZ alignment of opti-cal fibers and other optical components with nanometer precision. Two F-130 sys-tems can be controlled in parallel with other devices by a single C-880 controller. Photonics Alignment Solutions Motion controllers

The C-880 controller can beequipped with servo-con- trollers and industrial power amplifiers for the following drive types: Fast Piezo NanopositioningStages

Ceramic Linear motors & Stages

Frictionless, stictionless piezo-nanopositioning systems pro- vide sub-nanometer accuracy combined with very short set-tling times. The high accelera-tion of piezo drives makes pos- sible precision scans like those used in scanning microscopyor for characterizing fiber opticdevices in significantly shortertimes than with motor-driven stages. The C-880 can accommodate up to two P-611 NanoCube

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XYZ piezo nanopositioners. Micropositioning Stages andActuators The C-880 can control all DC-motor-drive translation, rota-tion, tip/tilt stages and linear actuators offered by PI, withoutthe need for external ampli- fiers. Examples are the highlycompact M-110 / M-111 / M-112translation stages with 50 nanometer minimum incre- mental motion, the high-load M-235 series and the high-pre- cision M-605 translation stages with integrated linear encoder.

C-880 Drive Examples

M-230 through M-235 Linear actuators. 50 nm min. incre-mental motionP-611 NanoCube PZTNanoPositioning System. High-speed scanning, nanometer-level precisionM-110 series minia-ture translation stages.60 x 62 mm foot print,50 nm min. incre- mental motionF-130 low-inertiahybrid photonicsalignment system.PZT drives / servo motorsM-501 industrial elevator stage. 12.5 mm vertical travel, < 0.1 µm min. inc. motion M-500 series trans-lation stages, 100 to300 mm travel. Highload, high resolutionM-605 compact trans-lation stage. 50 mm travel, direct output metrology M-060 to M-062 seriesrotation stages. Com-pact, high resolutionPneumatic grabberV-106 Voice-Coil-driv-en XY industrial scanner. 6 mm travel, up to 5 Hzscanning rate. Direct output metrology The high flexibility of the C-880 makes itthe solution of choice for many automa- tion and precision-positioning tasks. Hereonly a few examples can be given.Contact a PI Applications Engineer about your application.

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