Products Selected Applications Company Service & Contact | Calculator | English HOME SCANDELAY scanDelay Precision Optical Delay Line with High Scanning Speed Overview Specification Download Contact Precision Optical Delay Line with High Scan Speed Optical Delay with High Precision ScanDelay, an optical delay line, allows the introduction of a well-defined time delay into an optical path. The delay is periodically controlled by a fast scanning shaker at a frequency of up to 20 Hz. The heart of APE’s optical delay line series is a special linear translation stage that is supplied together with appropriate control and drive electronics. The linear drive has been designed especially for optical applications. It combines low moving mass with compactness, reaching a high speed, as well as high precision and resolution. The delay drive moves frictionless, has a large and precise travel range, and allows for very small displacements without any stick-slip-effects. Thus scanDelay is capable of generating fast wide scans as well as smallest delays without any stick-slip effects. The actual position is measured in real time by an analog photo-electric system with high resolution and a wide dynamic range. The linear drive allows an ultra-precise scanner movement and leads to an excellent scan-to-scan reproducibility. Including Software & Electronics The control electronic contains the motion driver and a quartz stabilized signal synthesizer. It can be synchronized with an external clock for a precise, phase-locked scanner movement. The software interface allows the user easy and fast setup of the scanning parameters. A visualized scan curve with amplitude values in time units gives direct feedback when the user is optimizing the scanning parameters. The software interface also incorporates the feedback loop controlled scanner stabilization. A set of LabView drivers allows the integration into existing measurement software. The scanDelay can be operated over a wide range of scanning frequencies with various scan modi, the motion driving force can be sinusoidal, triangular, sawtooth-like, or even of a user defined shape. The scanner movement will respond to this within the physical limitations imposed by a harmonic system. At a Glance Precise optical delay + high scanning speed Perfectly suited for pump-probe experiments Scan range variable from femtoseconds up to several picoseconds User-defined delay patterns Control software / LabView drivers Scan rate phase-locked to external source possible Linear and calibrated scaling due to position measurement scanDelay software: scanning frequency and sampling parameters WELCOME AT APE Our repertoire encompasses a large range of nonlinear optics equipment, from spectrometers to harmonic generators, from pulse compressors to quantum-dot single photon generation sources. Over the years, APE has built up an impressive array of more than 30 products entirely developed and produced within its headquarters in Berlin. NEWS ARPES news APE turns 29 years today. Mittweidaer Lasertagung Day of Photonics Innovation Seminar 2021 CONTACT US Address: Plauener Strasse 163-165 | Haus N | 13053 Berlin | Germany Phone: +49 30 986 011-30 Email: sales@ape-berlin.de APE ON LINKEDIN Linkedin GENERAL TERMS Impressum Terms & Conditions Privacy Information © Copyright 2018/2019. All Rights Reserved. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.Ok