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Laser Imaging Systems


LaVision was founded in 1989 as a spin-off from Max Planck Institute and Laser Laboratory in Goettingen, Germany. The LaVision team has extensive professional experience in Laser Imaging Spectroscopy and optical techniques such as Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF), Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy, Raman, Rayleigh and Mie Scattering, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), Spray Analysis, Digital Image Correlation (DIC) techniques as well as ultra-fast time-resolved imaging and high-speed image recording.






Artium Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1998 with the goal of developing and commercializing advanced laser-based diagnostics for environmental and health related applications. While at Aerometrics, this team invented and successfully commercialized the Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer (PDPA) for characterizing spray drop size distributions, drop dynamics, volume flux, number density, and the gas phase turbulence parameters.
Particle Image Velocimetry - PIV
Measures whole velocity fields by taking two images shortly after each other and calculating the distance individual particles travelled within this time.
Laser Induced Fluorescence – LIF/PLIF
It is a powerful diagnostic tool for the investigation of nonreacting as well as reacting gas and liquid flows.
Laser Doppler Velocimetry – LDV
It is a well-known technique for measuring the velocity of individual particles non-intrusively in a flow field.
Phase Doppler Interferometer – PDI
It is an extension of Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) for measuring the size of spherical droplets in addition to its velocity.
Digital Image Correlation – DIC/DVC
It is a state-of-the-art, non-intrusive optical tool for shape, strain and deformation analysis of solid, granular and liquid subjects.
Laser Induced Incandescence - LII
LII imaging is applied using intense laser light sheet illumination slicing the (reactive) particle flow at user defined locations.
Portable Laser Induced Incandescence – LII
Portable LII consists of a self-contained rugged optics enclosure which includes the laser and all components needed for operating the instrument.
Shadow, IMI
Shadow Imaging and IMI are techniques for sizing particle measurements.
Optical Sensor Systems
Optical Sensors for internal combustion analysis, temperature measurements and trace gas detection for leakage tests.