CAVILUX® Smart for High-Speed Illumination

Powerful pulsed diode laser delivering ultra-short, high-repetition pulses up to 10 MHz. Ideal for ultra-high-speed imaging, schlieren, shadowgraphy, and materials testing.

Benefits

  • High power and very short pulses down to 10 ns
  • Ideal light source for schlieren and shadowgraphy applications
  • Excellent for ultra-high-speed imaging with short pulses
  • Versatility by varying pulse duration and repetition rate
  • Monochromatic and low-coherence light

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 very short pulses down to 10 ns
  • Ideal light source for schlieren and shadowgraphy applications
  • Excellent for ultra-high-speed imaging with short pulses
  • Versatility by varying pulse duration and repetition rate
  • Monochromatic and low-coherence light

Applications

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

  • Schlieren imaging
  • Materials testing

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System features

  • Components and camera synchronisation
  • System content
  • Laser unit, control unit, illumination optics
  • Software interface
  • CAVILUX Control Software
  • Possible laser units per control unit
  • 1 - 4
  • Synchronisation signal
  • 5 V TTL
  • Laser unit
  • Wavelengths available
  • 640 nm (visible), 810 nm (invisible)
  • Power available
  • 200/400 W @ 640 nm, 300/500 W @ 810 nm
  • Laser class
  • Laser class 3B or 4 (depending on power and wavelength)
  • Minimum pulse duration (at reduced peak power)
  • 10 ns
  • Minimum pulse duration (at full peak power)
  • 30 ns
  • Amount of pulses per frame possible
  • up to 5
  • Duty cycle continous operation (typically for setting up)
  • 0,03 %
  • Duty cycle high speed operation
  • 0,1 %
  • Duration of high speed operation
  • 10 seconds
  • Versatility through changeable fiber optic illumination
  • Fiber coupled illumination
  • yes
  • Adjustable illumination with lens (standard solution)
  • yes
  • Light sheet illumination
  • no
  • Pulse duration / frequency examples
  • 10 ns
  • 100.000 Hz (@ 0.1 % DC)
  • 50 ns
  • 20.000 Hz (@ 0.1 % DC)
  • 100 ns
  • 10.000 Hz (@ 0.1 % DC)
  • 1 μs
  • 1.000 Hz (@ 0.1 % DC)
  • 10 μs
  • 1.00 Hz (@ 0.1 % DC)
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