CAVILUX HF UHS

CAVILUX® HF UHS for Ultra-High-Speed Illumination

CAVILUX HF UHS is a powerful pulsed diode laser light source with very short pulses and very high repetition rates. It is an ideal light source for ultra-high-speed cameras up to 5 MHz. CAVILUX HF UHS can generate pulsed light power of hundreds of watts at as short as 50 ns pulses. The light output is essentially monochromatic with low degree of coherence, which is ideal for illumination purposes as there are no chromatic aberrations or speckle.

Benefits

  • High power and brightness (up to 500 W coupled to a 1.5 mm diameter fiber)
  • Ability to generate pulses up to 5 million fps
  • Minimum pulse length of 50 ns
  • Monochromatic and low-coherence light
  • High flexibility through fiber optics and changeable illumination optics

Applications

Check out how CAVILUX HF can be used in your field of industry and how our customers have used it in the following applications:

Benefits

  • High power and brightness (up to 500 W coupled to a 1.5 mm diameter fiber)
  • Ability to generate pulses up to 5 million fps
  • Minimum pulse length of 50 ns
  • Monochromatic and low-coherence light
  • High flexibility through fiber optics and changeable illumination optics

Applications

Check out how CAVILUX HF UHS can be used in your field of industry and how our customers have used it in the following applications:

  • Schlieren imaging
  • Materials testing (e.g. DIC, Hopkinson bar)

Benefits

  • High power and brightness (up to 500 W coupled to a 1.5 mm diameter fiber)
  • Ability to generate pulses up to 5 million fps
  • Minimum pulse length of 50 ns
  • Monochromatic and low-coherence light
  • High flexibility through fiber optics and changeable illumination optics

Applications

Check out how CAVILUX HF can be used in your field of industry and how our customers have used it in the following applications:

Welding

Shockwaves

Flows and sprays

Ballistics and explosions

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System features

  • Components and camera synchronisation
  • System content
  • Laser unit (with green laser pointer), control unit, illumination optics
  • Software interface
  • no software
  • Possible laser units per control unit
  • 1
  • Synchronisation signal
  • 5 V TTL
  • Laser unit
  • Wavelengths available
  • 640 nm (visible), 810 nm (invisible)
  • Power available
  • 280 W @ 640 nm, 500 W @ 810 nm
  • Laser class
  • Laser class 4
  • Minimum pulse duration (at reduced peak power)
  • 50 ns
  • Minimum pulse duration (at full peak power)
  • 100 ns
  • Amount of pulses per frame possible
  • 1
  • Duty cycle continous operation (typically for setting up)
  • 0,03 %
  • Duty cycle high speed operation
  • 99 %
  • Duration of high speed operation
  • 30 us total laser time
  • Versatility through changeable fiber optic illumination
  • Fiber coupled illumination
  • yes
  • Adjustable illumination with lens (standard solution)
  • yes
  • Light sheet illumination
  • yes
  • Pulse duration / frequency examples
  • 10 ns
  • Not applicable
  • 50 ns
  • Up to 10,000,000 Hz
  • 100 ns
  • Up to 10,000,000 Hz
  • 1 μs
  • Up to 1,000,000 Hz
  • 10 μs
  • Up to 100,000 Hz
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