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Piezo Actuators Provide Flexibility to Laser Designers Using Compact Optical Mounts and Motion Stages

Piezo Actuators Provide Flexibility to Laser Designers Using Compact Optical Mounts and Motion Stages

MKS Instruments, Inc. | 01/24/2025

The design of lasers requires very high precision in assembling the components and sub-assemblies that constitute them. In particular, the optical path must be precisely aligned to avoid any power loss or risk of damage to the internal components, given the energy carried by the laser beam. This technical paper will describe how the Picomotor™ and Agilis™ series actuators associated with Newport optical mounts control the positioning/alignment of the laser beam and realize the necessary trajectory corrections to maintain an ideal optical path. This level of precision is particularly important in optical designs that extend to several meters inside the laser.

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