laser beam steering

[nzb]

I want to perform laser beam x,y steering using labview and NI Hardware.

The beam steering has to be done as per a user input image file.

The picture is inputted in to LABVIEW.

Beam steering is done by 2  galvanometer scanning mirrors, one scans in x and another in y.

The NI hardware generates the electrical signals as per the input image file, and these signals  drive the  "galvanometer scanning mirrors".

I would be grateful if you could please get me started on how to get started on  it?

I am designing this set up  from scratch and need some familiarity with  what type of NI hardware can do something like this?

thanks a lot!

nzb

[Rob_Ward]

nzb,

This is a quite general question so I will answer it with a general answer.  if you open LabVIEW, go to Help -> Find Examples.  There is tons of example code in there and I am sure that one of them will do something that you may be looking for and will help you get to grips with your project.

Regards,

[LV_Pro]

As to hardware selection, you have to determine a bunch of things, at your end, to allow you to pick the hardware, for example:

1- what are the drive requirements (voltage and current) of the galvonometers?

2- what frequency are the drive signals (determining how fast the mirrors have to traverse, both in a "scan" and if appropriate a "retrace" will be a starting point.

From that you should have a starting point to determine what the hardware requirements may be, and can then start looking at the hardware.