Application of electric translation table

Electrically controlled translation table (electrically controlled displacement table) is a kind of translation table driven by electricity, which is generally composed of screw, guide rail, table, driver, controller and other components. It can accurately control the displacement of translation table through software, and can also set the running program of translation table through coding.

Electronically controlled translation stage is mainly used in seven fields, including photonics and optics, scanning near-field optical microscope, test control and equipment, material science, microscope, industrial automation and life science. Besides these seven applications, electronically controlled translation stage can also be used in other small fields. The application fields of electronically controlled translation stage are introduced one by one below.

Photonics and optics

The electronically controlled translation stage can be used for optical bread board prototype, optical calibration and calibration, image acquisition, image analysis, time-resolved optical spectroscopy, laser wavelength tuning, laser beam stabilization, laser-driven electron acceleration research and application, optical crystal positioning, Michelson interferometer, beam analysis and femtosecond laser pulse characterization in the field of photonics.

With Michelson interferometer, it is necessary to move the reflector to obtain the best optical path difference, and this process can be easily realized by electronically controlling the translation stage, avoiding the shortcoming that manual movement is not accurate and controllable.

Biomedical application

Biomedicine often needs observation at the cell level, and the requirements for displacement and manipulation are very detailed. Generally, laboratories will choose high-precision electronically controlled translation tables.

The electronically controlled translation stage can be used in biomedical fields, such as biomaterial testing, medical imaging, scanning probe in medical imaging, microfluidic, positioning flow cell for particle analyzer, automatic patch clamp for oocyte, injection pump application, biomedical engineering application involving surgical laser control, photoacoustic imaging project, Escherichia coli research, fluorescence detection system and so on.

Testing, control, measurement and instruments

The electronically controlled translation table is also of great significance to the fields of measurement, control and measuring instruments. Parallelism calibration is one of the most common applications in industry. Parallelism calibration requires not only a collimator but also a translation table, because the collimator can only judge whether a straight line is parallel, and the whole product inspection usually puts the autocollimator on the electronic translation table and slides along the direction of the production line once to detect the parallelism of the whole production line.

The electronically controlled translation stage can also be used for XY calibration table, infrared sensor test, thermocouple positioning to measure temperature curve, laser triangulation calibration, mass spectrometer for in-flight measurement, optical detection system, positioning CCD and photomultiplier tube.

Materials science

The application of materials science is somewhat similar to biomedicine, but sometimes the accuracy is slightly lower. Electronically controlled displacement table is mostly used in material testing, surface scanning, surface reaction, thin film coating, thin film gradient testing, atomic force microscope (AFM) application, three-dimensional measurement, scanning laser ablation of sample surface, measurement and calibration, MEMS micro-system, stereo lithography and so on.

Microscope and microscopic technology

At present, microscopes are almost always used in conjunction with the objective table, so as to observe samples from different angles and compare multiple samples at the same time. Electric microscope stage, microscope positioning, programmable joystick control microscope, fluorescence microscope, and the control of ND filter of solid-state laser system for confocal microscope all need electric control translation stage.

Industrial Automation

In the field of industrial automation and the field with the largest usage of electronic control translation table, one or more electronic control displacement tables need to be integrated into mechanical equipment. It can control the position of X-Y or X-Y-Z, and can also be used for the positioning of machine vision system. It has achieved good results in subdivision applications such as semiconductor equipment, sorting and automatic processing systems, and life test of electrical connectors.

Life Sciences

The field of life science is very similar to biomedical and chemical applications, and it involves more research on the human body. In the application of life science, the electronically controlled translation stage can be used for patch clamping, automatic microtome, soft tissue tensile test, optical fluorescence microscope, three-dimensional moving microorganism tracking, worm tracking and laser capture microdissection.

In addition to the above seven fields, the electronically controlled translation stage is also widely used in other fields, such as translation and tilt camera bracket, control filter, antenna locator, atomic physics research, atomic clock and quantum calculation, astronomical imaging and laser cutting, marking and engraving. With the development of industrial automation, the application field of electronically controlled translation table is still expanding. It can be predicted that electronically controlled displacement table will help more industries and scientific research departments in the future with its high precision and flexible control.