DAQ System works with optical sensors.
Press Release Summary:
LabVIEW(TM) graphical development environment with company's data acquisition (DAQ) boards work with optical sensors available from Hamamatsu, New Focus, Thermo Oriel, Thorlabs, and others. System scales to applications in production and test, such as synchronizing optical power measurements with motion to decrease alignment and assembly time. Free optical power demonstration software is available at web site.
Original Press Release:
Develop Flexible, Cost-Effective Optical Power Applications with National Instruments
National Instruments DAQ Software and Hardware Suitable for Design Lab and Manufacturing floor
AUSTIN,Texas - Feb. 5, 2002 - Design and production engineers now can measure the power of light in optical component alignment, manufacturing, and test in a solution that scales from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor.
Using National Instruments LabVIEW(TM) graphical development environment with NI data acquisition (DAQ) boards and third-party optical sensors, engineers have a measurement solution that can meet both the rigorous requirements of the lab and provide the throughput and high channel count needed for the manufacturing floor. This unprecedented scalability delivers a long-term, cost-effective measurement solution.
Engineers often need to make optical power measurements to verify the operation of optical components. Now, design engineers can easily make these measurements using LabVIEW in conjunction with NI data acquisition boards, such as the NI 6052E, as well as optical sensors available from Hamamatsu, New Focus, Thermo Oriel, Thorlabs, and others. The NI 6052E data acquisition board for PCI and PXI has a 333 kS/s sampling rate, 16 analog inputs, and 16-bit resolution. With this performance, the NI-based solution easily scales to applications in production and test, such as synchronizing optical power measurements with motion to decrease alignment and assembly time. NI's real-time system integration bus (RTSI(TM)) also provides this solution through fast and easy synchronization with other kinds of measurements, including image acquisition.
For more information about testing optical power components or to download FREE LabVIEW optical power demonstration software, visit ni.com/communications.
About NI
NI leverages commercial technologies, such as industry-standard computers and the Internet, to deliver customer-defined measurement and automation solutions. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 2,800 employees and direct sales offices in more than 35 countries. NI is increasing the productivity of engineers and scientists worldwide by delivering easy- to-integrate software and modular hardware. For the past three consecutive years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
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