The instrument
Precision inside. An appliance outside.
Automated motion, polarization state modulation and rotation, cooled imaging, and calibrated polarimetric acquisition are sealed into one bench-top enclosure that runs in open air — no vacuum, no conditioning. Everything the operator touches is on the outside; everything precise is sealed within. Scroll to look around it.
Form
Built to sit next to the parts it inspects.
A rigid, self-contained chassis on vibration-damping feet. The stage lives under a removable acrylic lid that keeps dust and drafts off your samples without a chamber.
- Weight
- 102 lb (46 kg)
- Footprint
- 25″ W × 20″ D × 18″ H
- Stage enclosure
- Removable high-quality acrylic lid
- Operating environment
- Open air — no vacuum, no isolation table
The measurement head
Motion, focus, and imaging — all automated.
Under the lid: a motorized stage sweeps the sample beneath a cooled monochrome camera, focusing itself and holding calibration slot to slot. Load a coupon or fill the stage with several, mark the regions, and walk away.
A monochrome, thermoelectrically-cooled sensor built for sensitivity, with 16-bit depth that preserves fine detail.
- XY stage
- Zaber motorized · 120 × 100 mm travel
- Focus
- Zaber linear stage · 10 mm travel · parfocal · software autofocus
- Illumination
- LED light source
Pixel pitch at sample
Sub-micron across every objective · calibrated per objective at delivery.
Connect and run
The entire connection fits on one panel.
Three USB cables to its computer and a single switched, fused mains inlet — that is the whole install. The TiPolar software drives the rest.
- Data
- 3 × USB 3.0 Type-A
- Power
- One switched mains outlet · 15 A fuse
- Software
- TiPolar software — Windows or macOS
Configure one for your lab.
Tell us your material system, sample envelope, and timeline — we'll come back with a configuration and a quote.