CAVILUX® Smart for High-Speed Illumination

CAVILUX Smart is a versatile and powerful pulsed diode laser light source. It is the ideal complement of high-speed cameras, enabling to capture bright images with high contrast of the most challenging processes. 

CAVILUX Smart can generate light pulses of hundreds of watts. 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.

CAVILUX Smart can generate arbitrary pulses or bursts of pulses with precisely adjustable duration for the length of each individual pulse and each delay between pulses.

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

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:

Welding

Shockwaves

Flows and sprays

Ballistics and explosions

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References

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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