Optical Tables
Optical Table and Breadboard products are designed to provide a large, vibration isolated and damped work surface from which to conduct optical experiments. An optical table consists of two main items: a support and an optical tabletop or breadboard. The support can be in the form of a frame with casters or as four individual cylindrical legs. The supports can be either elastomeric (rigid) with nominal vibration isolation or pneumatic, which provides the best isolation from floor vibrations. The tabletop has a matrix of 1/4-20 or M6 threaded holes on the surface and is constructed with a steel honeycomb structure to make it stiff, but with minimal mass. The vibration control provided by optical tables is frequently used in applications such as microscopy, metrology, optical fiber alignment, interferometry, or wherever optical experiments are done. Optical tables can be found in just about any laser lab but also support bio-medical, life sciences, astronomy, metrology, and semiconductor industries. OptoSigma offers a wide selection of optical table sizes from stock, desk-type workstations and desktop isolators and shelf accessories. If one of our many catalog tables does not meet your requirements, send us a request for a custom table.
* For more information, please see: Optical Tables Guide Customization Guide
Product Comparison
Standard (Passive) Isolation
RIGID
- Cost Effective
- High Stiffness legs
- Manual leveling System
- No Vibration Isolation
PNEUMATIC
- Independent Isolators
- Self-leveling System
- Dual Chamber Design
- Vibration Isolation
TECHNICAL NOTES
- Steel Honeycomb Top
- 25mm x 25mm M6 Tapped Holes
- Individual cups for each hole to prevent liquid damage
- Table dimensions from 0.6m to 5m
- Breadboard thickness : 25mm; 50mm; 100mm; 200 mm; 300mm; 400mm
Load capacity on the isolators
Rigid Supports
Pneumatic Supports
How To Setup an Optical Table?
Active Isolation
VS.
Passives Isolation
