laser source for spatial scanning

[tomislav.pribanic@fer.hr]

Dear All,

I was wondering is there a suitable NI product to scan a laser line and/or point throughout the space. Scanning should be preferably controlled somehow.
The final goal is to capture with cameras scanned laser line/point for the purpose of 3D reconstruction. Thank you very much in advance.
Regards, Tomislav.
Tomislav Pribanic, M.Sc., EE
Department for Electronic Systems and Information Processing
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
3 Unska, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
tel. ..385 1 612 98 67, fax. ..385 1 612 96 52
E-mail : tomislav.pribanic@fer.hr

[HI_Z]

If you need to locate the coordinates of a laser in 3D space you'll need two cameras (one for xy and the other for xz/yz axis) connected to two frame grabbers. See http://www.ni.com/camera for cameras supported by NI frame grabbers. Depending on the type of camera you'll use, you should get the appropriate frame grabber for it (digital/analog). See http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/nioc.vp?cid=1292〈=US for info on frame grabbers. Finally you'll need NI Vision software to process the images and find the coordinates of the laser is.
I hope this helps!

[tomislav.pribanic@fer.hr]

Thank you for your input. At the moment I am not looking for cameras and frame grabbers but primarly for laser device itself which will scan throughout the space.
Regards, Tomislav.