Z-Laser products are built using an automated production process in which all optical components are aligned by a high-accuracy robot. This provides unrivalled accuracy and reproducibility of beam quality, with a boresight error of less than 0.8 mrad (fixed focus).
Lasers for image processing are used as structured illumination in many machine vision applications. The lasers are used in combination with an industrial camera to detect and measure defects, presence, diameter, edges, gaps and more, including the creation of a datum point when a mechanical datum point is not visible in the field-of-view.
Line lasers are available with homogeneous and thin line projections in a variety of projected patterns (single & multi lines, points, dot grids, grid structures, random patterns, etc.). The lasers are available in a range of wavelengths, from 405nm to 830nm, and at various optical output powers.
In terms of optical output power, the higher the power, the brighter the pattern projection. For static and slow-moving applications, a low-power laser can be used while remaining within eye-safe limits. For demanding applications such as railroad track inspection, the laser projection needs to overcome sunlight while running at high-speed, requiring much higher output power to create a visible line for each image acquisition.