Designed for demanding motion control applications, the encoders bring together the company’s filtering optics with a new custom interpolation and monitoring ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) that enhances dynamic signal processing and improves signal stability.

All necessary interpolation and digital signal processing are combined inside the tread head to eliminate the need for additional interfaces.

The standard read head features a Sub-Divisional Error (SDE) of <±30 nm, a range of available resolutions from 5 µm to 20 nm, and speeds beyond 12 m/s. For most demanding performance requirements, there is the Vionicplus, with SDE of <±10 nm, low jitter to 1.6 nm RMS and resolutions from 100 nm down to 2.5 nm.

APMEN Oct 2016, Products