The LSPP laser scanning profilograph- profilometer is a highly sensitive measuring device to define surface roughness and defects of machine components made of steel, cast iron, non-ferrous metals and alloys, as well as non-metallic components and other surfaces without damaging and destroying them.
This new prospecting non-contact measuring device is a part of the contemporary and dynamically developing class of devices. Its major advantages are:
- high depth sensitivity (to 1 nanometer) and highly vibro-protective surface investigation speed.
- Laser beam scanning across the selected line or in raster-scan regime.
- Side examination of inside holes (not less than 10 mm in diameter)
- Three-dimensional computer scan of the examined surface.

The device provides:
- reliable information on various objects in reflected, transmitted and scattered radiation;
- the so-called photo-related and phase-differential photo scans, which are world-known, but insufficiently explored; this gives excellent opportunities for research study.
Acoustic-optical scanning of objects (non mechanical) by two laser radiation beams splitting into two orthogonal directions provides three-dimensional phase-differential scans. This method also allows to obtain two-dimensional phase-differential information on object surface by using 2D acoustic-optical fast-response devices for laser radiation control.
Laser profilographs and profilometers have module design and vary in structure and set of tools depending on the field of application and purposes.
Micro Terminal (v 2.10) software support, capacities data transmission to text files, selection of required scanning regime (step (spacing), speed, fast mode selection amplitude, phase, sight check, reflective, (amplitude visualization; phase side-view (height) dimension), scanning signal-strength distribution along the line, linear dimension, roughness measurement etc, software augmentation, required area characteristics, three-dimensional scan with augmentation, foreshortening, multilingual and reference systems.

Our address:
Kyiv, National Aviation University,
Cosmonaut Komarov Prospekt, 1
Phone: (044) 406 7823, 237 5941.
stelmah@nau.edu.ua

