Ball Bearing Polygon Scanners

Our highly engineered components and subsystem solutions—combined with deep expertise in advanced photonics—make us the global technology partner of choice for advanced industrial OEMs and system integrators. Our ball bearing polygon scanners combine expertise from our Cambridge Technology engineering team to develop polygonal scanners with high precision for high-speed raster scanning.

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Description

Engineered by Cambridge Technology, our ball bearing based polygon scanners provide a low-cost high precision raster scanner. Our ball bearing based polygon scanner is ideal for applications requiring less than 20,000 RPM which demand high load capacity and/or encoder feedback at a reasonable cost point. These scanners feature speeds ranging from 300 to 20,000 RPM available depending on polygon size, facet count, and scanner type.

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Enhanced coatings
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Enhanced coatings

Enhanced aluminum and protected gold coatings covering wavelengths from 350 nm to 10,600 nm

Optional encoder
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Optional encoder

Optional encoder allows for improved positional feedback and better speed stability at slower speeds

Excellent power handling
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Excellent power handling

Excellent power handling due to high rotation speeds and aluminum polygon substrates

High-speed raster scanning
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High-speed raster scanning

Built for long lifetimes and high repeatability, our ball bearing polygon scanners are ideal for raster scanning applications such as high-speed inspection and sorting of a variety of agricultural commodities where large polygons, high performance, and consistent speeds are required.

Specifications
Model P1BBSB5CSB5XLIMXLXLOB-5XLOB-6XLOB-6.5
Max Speed

~15,000 RPM

~15,000 RPM

~15,000 RPM

~15,000 RPM

~20,000 RPM

~15,000 RPM

~15,000 RPM

~15,000 RPM

Max Mirror Diameter

3 in

3 in

3 in

3 in

3 in

6 in

6 in

6 in

Best Dynamic Track

40 arcsec

20 arcsec

10 arcsec

10 arcsec

20 arcsec

10 arcsec

10 arcsec

10 arcsec

Encoder Capable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes