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Purchasing Advisor for Time-of-flight Measurement Devices

Find all you need for professionally buying time-of-flight measurement devices: an interactive tool with a comprehensive and trustworthy directory of suppliers and expert guidance for a structured decision process with scientific and technical background information.

Top-level product categories: icon detectors and measurements, icon applications

More general product categories: optical metrology equipment

Related product category: laser rangefinders

Time-of-flight measurement devices, such as laser rangefinders, use high temporal resolution to measure distances accurately. These devices typically involve lasers that generate short light pulses and fast photodetectors to capture the reflected signals.

Interactive Purchase Decision Tool

Purchasing high-value photonics products is a substantial responsibility. Using a structured decision-making process and high quality supplier data helps a lot:

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How Responsible Purchase Decisions for Expensive Goods Like Lasers Are Done Explanations on this purchasing tool

Go through the process:

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

encyclopedia article time-of-flight measurements distance measurements with lasers

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you purchase.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying time-of-flight measurement devices. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for time-of-flight measurement devices. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

4. Document the decision process

It is essential to document your purchasing process, not only its result (chosen supplier):

  • You will find it easier next time.
  • If something goes wrong, you can defend your decision by showing that you properly considered all important aspects. Or you see what needs to be done better next time.

Our interactive tool makes it easy: Fill out the form, and in the end print it to a PDF. Note that the document will show all sections (including those not currently shown on the screen), while omitting some irrelevant details such as the page navigation.

Suppliers for Time-of-flight Measurement Devices

12 suppliers for time-of-flight measurement devices are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which two present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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OEM Electronics for the Generation and Detection of Laser Light

Analog Modules, Inc.
126 Baywood Avenue
Longwood, FL 32750
United States
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time-of-flight measurement devices

AMI's series of rangefinder/processor assemblies comprise a high performance receiver with compact support electronics to provide corrected range data to a mother system. The serial range data output is calibrated using AMI’s patented technology to mitigate the effects of range errors from various sources including walk due to return signal amplitude variations. Exceptional sensitivity allows the use of low power lasers, or alternatively, long range operation. The modules provide high voltage bias, time programmed gain with noise tracking threshold, first, last, and strongest pulse selection and range gating. The compact layouts allow positioning at the optics for minimum overall system size. A variety of models are offered providing cost verses performance options. A non-ITAR module is also available.

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RPMC Lasers, Inc.
8495 Veterans Memorial Pkwy
O’Fallon MO 63366
United States
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time-of-flight measurement devices

Serving North America, RPMC Lasers offers a wide range of compact pulsed laser sources for time-of-flight (ToF) measurement applications like range finding or LIDAR/bathymetry. These offerings include a wide variety of short pulsed DPSS lasers, CW and pulsed fiber lasers, laser diodes, and quantum cascade laser diodes. We provide standard and custom options that provide low SWaP, ruggedized, and high-performance output for many ToF-based applications, whether airborne or integrated into lightweight, handheld, and portable applications. Let RPMC help you find the right laser today!

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Other Suppliers

AUREA Technology
France
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Dimetix AG
Switzerland
IL Photonics
Israel
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Kingfisher International
Australia
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Laser Components GmbH
Germany
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LUCID Vision Labs, Inc.
Canada
Luciol Instruments SA
Switzerland
OptiConcepts Inc.
United States
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PicoQuant GmbH
Germany
REFLEX Analytical Corporation
United States
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