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Piezo & Magnetic mechanisms PIEZO & MAGNETIC MECHANISMS 1. SELECTION GUIDE CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES (CTEC) offers piezo and magnetic actuators based mechanisms to provide the user with motion over several degrees of freedom as well as advanced mechatronic functions. These mechanisms integrate position sensors (see dedicated webpage) for higher positioning accuracy thanks to closed loop control. These mechanisms are driven and controlled either by the powered rack or OEM controllers from CTEC (see dedicated webpage). Different product lines are available off-the-shelf: • X: single axis X guided stage,...

CEDRAT HNOLOGIES TEC Innovation in Mechatronics compact dynamic precise CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES (CTEC) piezo stage product line includes models with 1, 2 or 3 translation axis. All the models take advantage from the characteristics of APA® actuators and flexure guiding, in order to offer excellent compactness, robustness, bandwidth and resolution. It can be equipped with strain gauges for very fine positioning or closed loop control. Parasitic translations and rotations as well as cross talk are very limited. The XY25XS, XY200M & XY400M models are 2 push pull orthogonal axis stages with a centered...

Piezo & Magnetic mechanisms 3. PIEZO STEERING PLATFORMS Fig. d: View of the Tilt Translator TT60SM equiped with a mirror Fig. e: View of the Double Tilt Translator DTT35XS-SG Fig. f: View of the Double Tilt Translator DTT60SM-SG The piezo steering platforms are either tilt (single rotational axis) or Tip Tilt (dual rotational axis) mechanisms to move a mirror payload. Each rotational axis includes a pair of APA® driven in push pull. Each platform axis is equipped with a Strain gauge positioning sensor and is combined with OEM controllers like CCBu20 and CCBu40 for an accurate & dynamic motion...

CEDRAT HNOLOGIES TEC Innovation in Mechatronics compact dynamic precise 4. FAST STEERING MIRRORS A Fast-Steering Mirror (FSM) is an opto-mechanical solution includes a Mirror integrated on a steering platform (Tilt or Tip/Tilt) with positions sensors and a controller. CTEC COTS FSM are either piezo (P-FSM) or magnetic (M-FSM) actuator-based opto-mechanisms. They are controlled with either piezo controllers or magnetic controllers. Their sensors are either Strain Gauges (SG) for P-FSM or Eddy Current Sensors (ECS) for M-FSM. The P-FSM150S-SG, M-FSM45 & M-FSM62 models have large angular stroke...

Piezo & Magnetic mechanisms 5. FAST PIEZO SHUTTERS The Fast & Amplified Piezo Shutters (FPS & FAPS) are beam shutter mechanisms using two APA® actuators to open and close a slit, up to 3 mm in less than 10 ms. They are particularly suited to applications requiring low jitter, high repeatability or long lifetime. Design of FPS & FAPS series is based on either APA200M, APA400M and APA900M actuators. The moving jaw can be made of tungsten to offer very high X-Ray stopping power. The FPS & FAPS embed a Strain Gauge (SG) sensor to feedback the open / close status. Vacuum (VAC) and Ultra High Vacuum...

CEDRAT HNOLOGIES TEC Innovation in Mechatronics compact dynamic precise 6. CUSTOMISED PIEZO MECHANISMS The range of Commercially Off The Shelves (COTS) mechanisms shown in the previous paragraphs is indeed the tip of the iceberg in terms of sales revenue and manufacturing volume at CTEC. Usually a COTS product is hardly ready for a friendly plug and play inside the customer system for any application. More and more customer’s requests are demanding in terms of integration and functionality. To answer to that reality CTEC has been demonstrating its capability to deliver customized & OEM solutions...

CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES (CTEC) offers off-the-shelf mechatronics products including piezoelectric & magnetic actuators, motors, mechanisms, transducers and sensors with corresponding drivers & controllers. These mechatronics products are used for scientific and industrial applications requiring fonctions such as: micro and nano positioning, generation of vibrations, microscanning, fast & precise motion control, active control of vibrations, and energy harvesting Most of the products are available in OEM versions for low cost and high volume industrial applications. CTEC also offers services including,...