Specifications

Available range of measures

Number of encoding bits8 bits8 bits12 bits
Physical period6 µm140 µm9 µm
Range of measure4.6 x 4.6 mm²10.7 x 10.7 cm²11.06 x 11.06 cm²
Recommended microscopy objective20xmacro lens10x or 20x
Minimal required field of view0.18 x 0.18 mm²4.2 x 4.2 mm²0.45 x 0.45 mm²

Achievable resolutions

Noise levelTranslation0.57 nm20 nm0.57 nm
Rotation1 µrad1 µrad1 µrad
Minimal detected stepTranslation< 2 nm70 nm < 1 nm
Rotation5 µrad.5 µrad.5 µrad.
Linearity errorTranslation1.15 %
Rotation0.004 %

Computation time

This benchmark of computation time required to perform the pose measurement has been made with the setup presented below:

  • Processor i7-6700HQ at 2.6 Ghz
  • 16 Go of RAM
  • Graphic card Nvidia GTX 960M

The following table presents the measured time to compute a pose measure with different methods available in the Vernier Library with different size of images given in input.

Method used2048 x 20481024 x 1024512 x 512256 x 256
Periodic Pattern Detector568.87 ms140.15 ms35.812 ms7.59 ms
Bitmap Pattern Detector (2π unambiguous)
2774.9 ms693.06 ms163.50 ms41. 06 ms
QRCode Pattern Detector617.64 ms147.19 ms38.14 ms
Megarena Detector296.56 ms58.9 ms13.74 ms


Another benchmark made with a slighty more performant machine has also been made. The machine caracteristics are listed below:

  • Processor i7 at 3.7 GHz
  • 32 Go of RAM
  • Graphic card Nvidia GTX 1080

With this setup, the following results are measured:

method used2048 x 20481024 x 1024512 x 512256 x 256
Periodic Pattern Detector416.4 ms110.78 ms22.97 ms6.4 ms
Bitmap Pattern Detector (2π unambiguous)1833.28 ms467.81 ms109.07 ms27.19 ms
QRCode Pattern Detector478.59 ms117.18 ms29.07 ms
Megarena Detector694.53 ms173.59 ms38.44 ms10.32 ms