Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 40, Issue 9, 916002(2013)

Fast and Accurate Laser Beam Automatic Alignment System Based on CMOS Sensor

Li Yao1,2、*, Wang Ding1, Guo Xiaoyang1,2, and Leng Yuxin1
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    A new system is developed to adaptively collimate laser beam direction, with high speed and high accuracy. The sensing module of this system consists of an optical layout using pinhole to amplify the beam drift and a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor sensor. An field programmable gate array chip is the core of the signal processing module to perform high speed calculation and feedback control. At the aspect of software, an algorithm is designed to derive the driving signal for automatic alignment, which is capable of uncoupling the horizontal and vertical adjustment and suitable for highly accurate automatic control. Experiments are conducted to test the performance of the system. Results show that, the system implements feedback control with accuracy of 2.5 μm and the feedback frequency about 1 kHz, and can obviously reduce the beam drifting with the frequency below 1 kHz.

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    Li Yao, Wang Ding, Guo Xiaoyang, Leng Yuxin. Fast and Accurate Laser Beam Automatic Alignment System Based on CMOS Sensor[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2013, 40(9): 916002

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optical Design and Fabrication

    Received: Apr. 2, 2013

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Aug. 15, 2013

    The Author Email: Yao Li (Issac.l.y@gmail.com)

    DOI:10.3788/cjl201340.0916002

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