NANO PIV 

Compact Lasers for PIV Applications

The construction of the Nano PIV laser systems is extremely robust. They have been developed as industrial tools that can be handled without worry of misalignment or damage. All Litron PIV lasers are designed for both system integration and open source PIV. The PIV head is formed by an aluminium gauge-plate onto which two standard Nano series heads are mounted. The output beams are combined by dielectric polarisers and then frequency doubled, and if desired can be frequency tripled, quadrupled or quintupled. Many of the Nano PIV systems are powered by a single power supply unit, making the overall package both powerful and portable.

The laser system is controlled via a remote controller. All trigger and synchronisation signals are TTL compatible, and each laser is controllable entirely independently. All Nano laser heads have a verified electronic intracavity safety shutter as standard, which ensures that the lasers cannot be started with the shutter open – an important safety feature.

For large area illumination, high energies are achieved with the birefringence compensated Nano TRL lasers, which achieves output energies of up to 425mJ per pulse at 532nm, 10Hz.

All Nano PIV lasers are available with the third and fourth harmonics.