Voxtel introduced their ROX™ µLRF series of micro-laser rangefinder that is smaller than a keyboard mouse. Their new class of high-performance, eye-safe laser rangefinder is compact and lightweight, designed for use by high-performance consumer, industrial and military system integrators.https://cdn.specpick.com/images/photonics/rox_ulrf_series_300x240_300.jpg712370

According to Voxtel President George Williams, with this new class they aim to deliver safety and unprecedented performance to a host of cost-sensitive applications.

In applications like hunting and sporting, survey, mapping, altimetry, and UAV-mounted ranging and surveillance, many of today’s products use lasers that, when used at the power levels needed by the application requirements turn out to be not eye-safe, and require a tradeoff between safety and performance. Lasers operating at eye-safe wavelengths improve the capabilities of all these applications because beam power and quality need not be compromised.

According to William, Voxtel customers want portable, cost-effective, accurate data at long range whether it’s raining or not, and they want to get that data without risk of injury which is exactly what they are delivering.

The ROX µLRF series of micro-laser rangefinder is the culmination of their prolonged efforts for developing and refining their ROX technology. The ROX µLRF combines low-divergence diffraction-limited eye-safe laser pulses with Voxtel’s APD receiver to achieve sensitive, high performing rangefinder in its size and weight class. Unlike non-eye-safe solutions, the waterproof ROX series micro-laser rangefinder delivers reliable ranging of targets under direct sunlight, night time and low visibility conditions including fog, rain and snow.

The ROX µLRF integrates ROX’s Rx series’ highly sensitive InGaAs APD receivers, a ROX Tx series small-form-factor eye-safe diode-pumped solid-state laser, a visible aiming laser and custom pulse-processing circuits.