Launch of FR-102 Confocal 3D Scanner

Announcing the launch of our latest product, FR-102 Confocal 3D Scanner using our patent-pending technology - Structure Light Confocal System.

Confocal Technology

Confocal microscopy has been widely used for measurement of tiny objects. However, using such method for measurement of comparatively larger objects is not used often. Utilizing the latest technology development, the system can measure 3D objects of small to medium size (such as 1-10mm variation in height), with a speed that has never been so fast.
In comparing with the conventional triangulation method for 3D measurement, the confocal method yields the following advantages:

1) The surface condition of the measured object is not important; no matter whether they are matte surface or even shiny surface, it can accommodate certain degree of tilt.

2) It is able to measure holes in depth, whereas with triangulation measurement, either the camera or the light is blocked by the deep edges and can only be overcome by taking another image with the object reversed.

The first drawback of this confocal method is speed. However, with the implementation of the mentioned laser line curtain illumination and the using of ultra high speed line scan camera for light feedback detection, the overall system scanning speed becomes comparable to the popular triangulation method, yet yields the outstanding advantages as mentioned in (1)&(2) above that triangulation method can never achieve.