Polytec, Inc. - Product Announcements

If you need a portable multi-purpose non-contact vibration measurement system, Polytec's PDV-100 is the ideal solution. Applications of the PDV-100 include civil engineering studies, quality control, health monitoring and laboratory measurements requiring portability and convenience. (read more)

Fitting a sophisticated heterodyne laser interferometer into an extraordinarily small package is only one of many design triumphs that sets the OFV-534 Compact Vibrometer Head apart from its competition. (read more)

Polytec's TopMap Metro.Lab is an affordable, high-precision, non-contact topography measurement system designed to characterize flat and curved surfaces. Incorporating a scanning white light interferometer, the Metro.Lab can measure flatness and general topography with 20 nanometer resolution and determine parallelity of two or more surfaces separated by as much as 70 mm. (read more)

The convenient and non-contact mapping of operational deflection shapes is a specialty of Polytec's Laser Scanning Vibrometers. Now also rotating objects such as fans for consumer products and vehicles, turbines or tires can be characterized under operational conditions up to 24,000 RPM. (read more)

Polytec presents a revolutionary, fully-automated, highly productive 3-D vibrometer system utilizing an industrial robot. RoboVib acquires 3-dimensional vibration data of complex structures more quickly and with far higher measurement point density than is typical using the conventional accelerometer approach. (read more)

The human ear is one of the most sophisticated sound and vibration amplification sys­tems. State-of-the-art Laser-Doppler vibrometers reveal the vibrational and dynamic characteristics of hearing mechanics. (read more)

Precision speed and length measurements are critical for controlling production costs and for process optimization of continuous or quasi-continuous production. The ideal sensor must meet or exceed contact sensor performance while increasing dependability, surviving adverse industrial environments and minimizing maintenance. (read more)

Polytec's new RLV-5500 Rotational Laser Vibrometer uses a fiber-optic cable to provide laser power to the small RLV-500 Sensor Head, thus increasing mounting and positioning options without sacrificing precision. The RLV-5500 Controller comes with a 19'' industrial housing and incorporates the signal processing electronics and power supply. (read more)

Measuring equipment employed in production environments requires a compact and robust design to be suitable for the challenges met in harsh industrial areas. Polytec's Industrial Vibrometers combine a robust integrated single-box design with the clear advantages of non-contact, laser-based vibration measurement. (read more)

Digital vibrometer systems utilize the latest technologies for digital signal acquisition and processing. They are based on a purely numerical Doppler signal decoding technique, where displacement information is not recovered by analog demodulators but by powerful data processing algorithms. (read more)

An in-plane laser vibrometer is designed to measure the velocity of a surface moving in a plane perpendicular to the bisector of the two converging laser probes. The frequency shift (Doppler Effect) of the back-scattered laser light is used to determine the velocity. (read more)

VibSoft is a comprehensive software and hardware package for acquiring and processing data from Polytec's line of single-point laser vibrometers. It manages the data acquisition, signal decoding, function generator, data display and remote control of vibrometer controller settings. (read more)

Polytec's modular vibrometer controller is continually improving to meet the needs of advanced vibration measurement applications. The latest design adds digital processing with a range of new features that make non-contact vibration analysis even more precise, simple, flexible and rewarding. (read more)

Polytec Laser Doppler Vibrometers are precision tools for non-contact vibration measurement. Designed to be quick, easy to operate and free from cross-talk or feedback problems, these instruments determine a structure's velocity and displacement from the Doppler shift of back-scattered laser light. (read more)

Polytec's New UHF-120 Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV) characterizes out-of-plane vibrations at unprecedented frequencies as high as 600 MHz. The system retains the advantages and features familiar to LDV users and opens many new applications in the testing of RF MEMS, ultrasound transducers, SAW filters and laser ultrasonic NDE. (read more)

Polytec's latest technology is used for cutting edge applications in the field of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Structures (MEMS). Our Micro System Analyzer (MSA-500) combines powerful tools for analysis and visualization of structural vibrations of MEMS. (read more)

Polytec's HSV-2000 series high speed vibrometer is used for velocity and displacement measurements up to 30 m/s. This system is widely used by Formula 1 engineers for the development of high performance racing engines. (read more)

Customers familiar with Polytec's single-point sensor heads will appreciate the outstanding performance and reliability of these models. The completely new optical design of the OFV-505 and OFV-503 heads offers even better performance including exceptional optical sensitivity. The OFV-505 features autofocus and focus memory. (read more)

Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is used for fast, reliable, and non-destructive measurements that simultaneously control manufacturing processes and product quality, assuring that final product specifications and quality are met. (read more)

Polytec has delivered high-performance optical measurement systems geared towards dynamic and static characterization of structures for over thirty years. Structures characterized by Polytec's products range from micrometer-size devices such as micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) up to very large objects like car bodies or aircraft. (read more)