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Page 1: ...PICOSCALE USER MANUAL www smaract com...

Page 2: ...hecked by our team and is constantly up dated Nevertheless it is not possible to fully exclude the presence of errors In order to always get the latest information please contact our technical sales t...

Page 3: ...use 15 2 6 Unpacking 15 2 7 Disposal of old equipment 15 3 PICOSCALE fundamentals 16 3 1 General setup and basic components 16 3 2 Measurement principle 17 3 2 1 Michelson interferometer 17 3 2 2 Sin...

Page 4: ...erential Digital Interface DDI 36 5 3 2 BOB digital GPIOs 38 5 3 3 BOB analog GPIOs 39 5 4 Sensor heads 40 5 5 Environmental Module 41 6 Setup and installation 42 6 1 System checklist 42 6 2 Unpack t...

Page 5: ...System 69 7 5 4 Counter 70 7 6 Streaming Monitor 71 7 6 1 Con gure data receiver layout 71 7 6 2 Setting up a data receiver 72 7 6 3 Manipulate the data 73 7 6 4 Con gure the data stream 73 7 6 5 Pico...

Page 6: ...CE Read this manual carefully before operating the PICOSCALE for the rst time Special attention should be given to the material in chapter 2 Product Safety which describes the secure handling of the P...

Page 7: ...ed beyond a DANGER notice until the indicated conditions are fully understood and met This signal word is to be limited to the most extreme situations WARNING Indicates a hazardous situation that if n...

Page 8: ...operator to the presence of important oper ating and maintenance instructions This symbol is intended to alert the operator to the danger of exposure to haz ardous visible and invisible laser radiatio...

Page 9: ...intense beams of light CAUTION The PICOSCALE Controller contains an infrared diode laser with an output of less than 0 2 mW at 1520 nm 1580 nm less than 0 3 mW for V1 4 and less than 0 6 mW for V1 4 H...

Page 10: ...Do not operate under wet damp conditions WARNING Observe all terminal ratings To avoid damage re or shock hazard observe all ratings marked on the PicoScale Controller or documented in the manual NOT...

Page 11: ...E Always clean ber prior connection Prior to connecting an interferometer head make sure to clean both the ber connector and the ber receptacle with suitable ber cleaners This is necessary to achieve...

Page 12: ...TRL V1 1 TAB 1711061 000 PS CTRL V1 3 RACK 1711061 000 PS CTRL V1 2 TAB 1711061 000 PS CTRL V1 4 RACK 1711252 000 PS CTRL V1 3 TAB 1711061 000 PS CTRL V1 4 TAB HP 1810594 000 PS CTRL V1 4 TAB 1711252...

Page 13: ...ic eld immunity test EN 61000 4 4 2010 Electrical fast transient burst immunity test EN 61000 4 5 2006 Surge immunity test EN 61000 4 11 2004 Voltage dips short interruptions and voltage variations im...

Page 14: ...ted below Electromagnetic Emission DIN EN 61326 1 2013 DIN EN 55011 2011 Groupe 1 Class B 1 Electromagnetic Immunity DIN EN 61000 4 2 2009 DIN EN 61326 1 2013 DIN EN 61000 6 2 DIN EN 61000 4 3 2010 DI...

Page 15: ...30 C Environmental humidity 5 to 80 RH non condensing Storage temperature 0 C 50 C 2 6 Unpacking Before unpacking the PICOSCALE Controller please refer to chapter 6 of this manual 2 7 Disposal of old...

Page 16: ...sensor heads are connected to the PICOSCALE controller via optical bers The system measures the displacements of a target mirror relative to the sensor head Up to three sensor heads can be connected...

Page 17: ...h very unequal arm lengths as it is the case for the PICOSCALE At a beam splitter the light is divided into two parts One part is re ected at a xed reference mirror and guided back to the beam splitte...

Page 18: ...ition Thus during constant movement the resulting intensity signal is a sinusoid similar to the signal shown in gure 3 2 Due to the symmetry of the sinusoid it is not possible to determine the movemen...

Page 19: ...ugh the DFB laser has a very high spectral purity spectral width below 10 pm the emitted wavelength is not constant due to unavoidable thermal drifts Since the measured target position is directly dep...

Page 20: ...tive zero position can be de ned freely The system measures any position change Sensor head Reference mirror Target mirror Optical fiber absolute Position relative Position 0 D D 0 D X X Figure 3 4 Th...

Page 21: ...a increments or external data through the GPIO interface can be used to con gure trigger sources Furthermore trigger sources can be linked with logical operations to allow for sophisticated trigger co...

Page 22: ...4 BASIC CONCEPTS Figure 4 1 Overview of all PICOSCALE modules and their possible dependencies 22 PicoScale User Manual...

Page 23: ...oth digital and analog processing A detailed description of the Clock Generator module can be found in section 7 5 1 4 1 5 Signal Generator In the Signal Generator module pre de ned shapes sine square...

Page 24: ...ch other are bundled into a channel The values of data sources may be retrieved from the device by streaming or polling them to the user PC The user may select a sub set of all available data sources...

Page 25: ...ignals The individual photo electric signals are demodulated by both the modulation frequency and its second harmonic 60 MHz The resulting demodulation signals are digitized by analog to digital conve...

Page 26: ...enabled For example a beam interrupt event is produced if the probe beam is disturbed such that the signal quality has fallen below a certain level If at some point the signal quality is su ciently h...

Page 27: ...aggregation size This aggregation size is roughly set to provide about 20 data packages per second The protocol works most e cient if the aggregation size is a power of 2 i e Aggregation 2n n N Howev...

Page 28: ...responding aggregation sizes Frame rate Aggregation 10 5 2 5 1 25 MHz 1024 625 312 5 156 25 78 13 39 06 kHz 1024 19 53 kHz 512 9 77 kHz 256 4 88 kHz 128 2 44 kHz 64 1 22 kHz 32 610 Hz 16 305 Hz 8 152...

Page 29: ...ental module 3 can be connected to the controller Typically each PICOSCALE system is shipped with some additional accessory 4 like a One Click cleaner pen head adapters mirror mounts etc Finally a PC...

Page 30: ...t range of 0 5 V Internally this trigger input has a pull up resistor 10 k Thus the external trigger is always logically high when nothing is connected to the input The optical inputs outputs for up t...

Page 31: ...CALE o ers two bidirectional high level interfaces USB and Ethernet For USB connection the user PC is connected to the USB slave interface 6 for Ethernet correspond ingly to the Ethernet jack 8 Additi...

Page 32: ...e measurement of the PICOSCALE Controller 5 2 3 Power connection Connect the PICOSCALE Controller only with the provided IEC power cord and properly estab lished protective earth After connecting the...

Page 33: ...s interface The SmarAct SI interfaces the PICOSCALE Controller with other SmarAct products e g the Mod ular Control System 2 MCS2 In this con guration the PICOSCALE Controller may act as sensor module...

Page 34: ...s to the signals we recommend to use the PICOSCALE Breakout Box which is de scribed in chapter 5 3 It includes additional bu ering of analog and digital IOs and splits the D Sub 44HD connector to BNC...

Page 35: ...ilation holes of the PICOSCALE Controller are passed on to the Breakout Box so that heated air can disappear freely Do not cover the holes to prevent overheating of the PICOSCALE Controller The connec...

Page 36: ...AquadB connectors Signal Direction AquadB serial data 1 Out A positive CLOCK positive 2 Out B positive DATA positive 3 7 not connected 8 System Ground System Ground 9 Out A negative CLOCK negative 10...

Page 37: ...on increment So the maximal increment frequency is 4 times the maximum di erential pair frequency in this case 20 MHz Figure 5 6 Scheme of the di erential A and B signal and the according position inc...

Page 38: ...ers are listed in table 5 3 for the Digital 1 4 signals and table 5 4 for the Digital 5 9 signals Table 5 3 Main performance data BOB Digital 1 4 GPIO Bu er Parameter Typical Value Unit Comment VO 0 5...

Page 39: ...C resolution The input impedance is approx 34 k For a performance overview see table 5 5 and 5 6 Table 5 5 Main performance data of ADC1 Parameter Typical Value Unit Full scale input voltage 10 V Samp...

Page 40: ...plitter cube The optical ber single mode minimum bending radius 10 mm is terminated with a 8 ferrule The angle is introduced to suppress parasitic interferences A gra dient index GRIN lens also with 8...

Page 41: ...mental module can be connected to the PICOSCALE Controller Since the measurement of the environ mental conditions is most meaningful close to the sensor head the environmental module has a small chass...

Page 42: ...m at once The ship ping boxes for a standard PICOSCALE interferometer should contain the following equipment and documentation Table 6 1 Components of a PICOSCALE System Transport Case Image Dimension...

Page 43: ...ontainer to be sure you have removed all transport cases and addi tional items Do not discard the reusable shipping containers until it is certain that all items have been removed It is recommended to...

Page 44: ...p and push the plastic tube onto the glass ber end piece until you hear a click To clean the connectors on the PICOSCALE Controller or vacuum feedthroughs remove the plastic tube on top of the ber opt...

Page 45: ...ure that the sensor measures the local environmental parameters thus reducing compensation errors The Breakout Box BOB is connected using the included cable to the back panel of the PICO SCALE housing...

Page 46: ...ftware and API changes After con rming these information you can select a destination folder default C SmarAct Lastly you can select which components should be installed After the installer is nished...

Page 47: ...de and the pilot laser button should have stopped blinking NOTICE In rare cases the update procedure does not nish after a few minutes This problem may occur when updating PICOSCALE Controllers with a...

Page 48: ...ctivities like successful or failed rmware updates It may also include information about the reason why a system operation like a rmware installation has failed The system log can additionally be down...

Page 49: ...the PICOSCALE system with user friendly auto functions Position data as well as other data sources can be displayed in the the Stream Monitor Figure 7 1 PICOSCALE GUI overview 1 Menu 2 Connect to PIC...

Page 50: ...up If not it establishes a full access connection if yes the PICOSCALE GUI connects with limited access The Full Access LED indicates if a full access connection is established 7 1 2 General settings...

Page 51: ...y 10 time slots are available and can be activated individually Each time slot allows to evaluate the selected feature for 8 hours The remaining evaluation time slots are displayed in the Remaining Ev...

Page 52: ...tries of the GUI Figure 7 4 System log of the PICOSCALE controller All elds in the PicoScale status are updated auto matically after connecting to a PICOSCALE sys tem The system information is importa...

Page 53: ...e changed A standard sensor head is delivered with a ber length of about 1600 mm If additional extension bers are used the length should be inserted in the eld Extension ber mm Furthermore the beam in...

Page 54: ...button In this case the diameter of the corresponding Lissajous gure changes due to tilting of the sensor heads and should be maximized If during this process the Lissajous gure size exceeds the displ...

Page 55: ...trigger source signals are stored in a trigger source state register to which all eight triggers have access Each trigger can combine several trigger sources by logical operations AND OR etc which all...

Page 56: ...e desired trigger source Event This is the signal to which the trigger source listens to The meaning of the other elds depends on the chosen Event The GUI disables unnecessary elds and updates the nam...

Page 57: ...it stays high until reset Single Either The trigger source output is HIGH when the selected data source value passes the Threshold from below or above Once the trigger source is in a logically high s...

Page 58: ...selected data source value and the con gured threshold increment tuple are compared to each other The following conditions are available Single Rising Single Falling A pulse is generated when the sele...

Page 59: ...er source is in a logically high state it stays high until reset Positive Level Negative Level The level or the inverted level of the input pin is forwarded to the trigger source output respectively I...

Page 60: ...rigger has a set of registers like AND Mask OR Mask Logic Operation as well as Output Mode and Output Delay The PICOSCALE GUI allows to con gure these registers The Trigger Index drop down menu in the...

Page 61: ...this delay resets the delay counter Delayed No Reset In this mode the output control logic starts a delay counter when the trigger state changes State changes during this delay are ignored At the end...

Page 62: ...shows some short pulses e g a steady low level with some noise while the second trace b shows a noisy transition of the input signal from low to high similar to a trace of a mechanical button when pre...

Page 63: ...pins are accessed via the Breakout Box BOB their voltage range is raised to 0 to 5V Figure 7 13 shows the Digital IO Interface Con guration panel Each pin can be con gured individu ally Digital 1 to...

Page 64: ...ble 7 4 2 Digital Differential Interface DDI configuration Figure 7 14 Con guration Menu of the Quadrature Interface The PICOSCALE o ers three DDI outputs which are accessible via the D Sub 44HD conne...

Page 65: ...according to the con guration of the AquadB channel and displayed underneath the Step Frequency eld Serial data output SD For each serial data output the con guration menu allows the con guration of...

Page 66: ...t widths and sample rates are displayed in the bottom right corner of each con guration panel Each DAC interface can be controlled by one of the following options that can be selected via the switch n...

Page 67: ...in the center of the each Clock Gen erator Both generators can be synchronized to each other with a de ned phase shift by clicking the Synchronize button on the left side of the window Continuous out...

Page 68: ...n a range between 0 and 1 and the o set of the signal can individually be set in a range between 1 and 1 where 1 corresponds to 10 V and 1 to 10 V For example a square signal with values between 0 and...

Page 69: ...the results of Operator 1 and Operator 2 can be processed with Operator 3 resulting in a Calc Sys Result Operator 3 allows summation subtraction multiplication division or Max Min operation Alternati...

Page 70: ...ection of the Trigger Reset Mode there are three options Disabled Counting starts at the pre de ned Start Value at a Start Trigger event and stops at a Stop Trigger event Restart of the counter can on...

Page 71: ...lled and used within the Stream Monitor panel Each panel can be undocked using the small symbol next to the STREAMMONITOR headline so that you may move it to a di erent screen for example 7 6 1 Config...

Page 72: ...e data stream FFT Power Spectrum The power spectrum PS of one data source is calculated You may change to linear scaling taking the square root of the power spectrum to display the am plitude spectrum...

Page 73: ...6 S2w Raw uint16 16 Sw uint16 16 S2w uint16 16 Counter 1 2 uint48 48 Env Sensor Temperature int32 32 Env Sensor Humidity int32 32 Env Sensor Pressure int32 32 GPIO ADC1 3 uint16 16 Calculation System...

Page 74: ...a stop trigger a subsequent start trigger event does not activate the data stream again However sometimes this is necessary With the Reset on Stop function the stream generator can be auto matically r...

Page 75: ...rt them to human readable CSV les Therefore navigate to the Data Reader via File Read Stream Data File Here you can select the desired header le which contains the necessary information on frame rates...

Page 76: ...lower left hand side the Dead Path Correction can be activated During adjustment the PICOSCALE roughly determines the absolute distance between target mirror and sensor head and automatically determi...

Page 77: ...ation System including look up tables Clock Generator Counter Signal Generator including custom shapes Digital to analog converters Digital IO interface Digital Di erential interface The outputs of th...

Page 78: ...a data type and an access mode Some properties may be read and written while others are read only or in rare cases write only Within the Property Dialog you can read or write these properties For a d...

Page 79: ...as well as summaries of key performances you can nd in the application notes on SmarAct s homepage or on request SmarAct will constantly add more and more application notes so it is worth checking th...

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