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LM INFO Special Issue 2/2004:
Measuring to the Limits - Vibrometer Applications in the Data Storage Industry

In the Data Storage industry Laser Doppler Vibrometers are widely used for

  • Quality Control
  • Modal Analysis for FEM validation - Laser Doppler Vibrometry is the only practicably method to obtain data for modal analysis
  • Analysis of dynamic processes

Application Notes

VIB-D-01: LDV Investigation of Resonance Effects on Read/Write Heads 

TOP-01: Surface Quality Control of HDD Components using TopMap

Complex Mechanical Relationships on HDD's

HDD Noise Investigation

Products

VDD Digital Vibrometer

OFV-5000 Modular Vibrometer

OFV-551/552 Fiber-Optic Interferometer

CLV-3D Compact 3-D Laser Vibrometer

PSV-400 Scanning Vibrometer

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Polytec LLC equipment incorporates Polytec's vibration measurement technology for the data storage and semiconductor industry


 
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VDD PC-Based Digital Vibrometer

Digital Laser Doppler vibrometers offer answers when analog LDVs are pushed to their resolution limits.
 

  • For very difficult and stringent applications as measurements in data storage, micro-electro-mechanical structures (MEMS) or hearing dynamics

  • Combination of highest performance data acquisition, comprehensive VibSoft Software package and analog front-end

  • For calibration purposes only digital LDVs are applicable

 


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VDD PC-Based Digital Vibrometer

OFV-5000 Modular Vibrometer Controller

The core of Polytec’s latest state-of-the-art laser vibrometer systems M

  • Modular design to be tailored to specific or multiple applications
  • A range of new features that make non-contact vibration analysis even more precise, simple, flexible and rewarding
  • Can be incorporated as part of a small scale lab test, or expanded all the way up to a full scanning vibrometer system

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OFV-5000 Vibrometer Controller

OFV-552 Fiber-Optic Interferometer

The OFV-552 differential sensor head gives the customer complete access to the probe beam as well as the reference beam.
   

  • Allows measurement of  relative motions between two points of a structure 

  • Widely used for valve kinetics studies, where one laser beam is focused onto the valve and the other onto the cylinder

 


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OFV-552

OFV-551/552 Fiber-Optic Interferometer

Fiber optic LDV systems allow the user to point the measurement laser beam via a flexible cable terminated by a mini-lens. Fiber interferometers are most often used to measure small parts, when

  • physical access is difficult,

  • close stand-off-distances are required,

  • or where relative motions between two points need to be measured.


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OFV-551 Fiber Optic Sensor

CLV-3D Compact 3-D Laser Vibrometer

Polytec's 3-D laser vibrometer simultaneously measures all three linear velocity components at a point on a vibrating structure.
 

  • Small measurement volume allows non-contact
    3-D vibration measurements even of small components

  • True Vx, Vy and Vz analog outputs in real time at vibration frequencies as high as 250 kHz


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CLV-3D Compact 3-D Laser Vibrometer

PSV-400 Scanning Vibrometer

State-of-the-art measurement technology for the analysis of structural vibrations. Entire surfaces in the mm² to several m² range are rapidly scanned and automatically probed with flexible and interactively created scan grids. S
 

  • For resolving noise and vibration issues in the automotive, aerospace, commercial manufacturing and R&D markets

  • Full analysis of vibration data, including graphing, animation and data export


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PSV-400 Scanning Vibrometer