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2019 - Development of Two-Dimensional Piezoelectric Laser Scanner With Large Steering Angle and Fast Response Characteristics
2019 - Development of Two-Dimensional Piezoelectric Laser Scanner With Large Steering Angle and Fast Response Characteristics
Ho-Sang Kim, Dae-Hee Lee, Deog Jae Hur, and Dong-Chan Lee
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Ho-Sang Kim,1,a) Dae-Hee Lee,1 Deog Jae Hur,1 and Dong-Chan Lee2
AFFILIATIONS
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Center for Robot and Manufacturing Technology, Institute for Advanced Engineering, Yongin, Kyonggi-do 17180, South Korea
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Neosystem, Co. Ltd., 305 Chungho BLD, 501, Baekjegobun-ro, Songpa-gu, Seoul 05545, South Korea
a)
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: hoskim@iae.re.kr
ABSTRACT
We describe a two-dimensional piezoelectric laser scanner designed and tested to obtain a large steering angle of 1○ and fast response
characteristics of 200 Hz. To overcome the relatively small expansion capability of piezoelectric actuators, the displacement amplification
mechanisms with two levers in series are employed to magnify the end tip of the lever which is connected to a 0.5-in. glass mirror. For fast
response characteristics, the natural frequencies of the hinge mechanisms were calculated by using the finite element analysis technique.
In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed scanner, the hinge mechanism has been manufactured of titanium alloy and the natural
frequencies of the hinge mechanism have been measured by sine sweep test. Also, the actual machining test on the burning paper has been
done by using a high power laser, and it is shown that the proposed laser scanner is capable of steering the laser beam 1○ with a frequency of
200 Hz.
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I. INTRODUCTION for example, voice coil actuators and piezoelectric actuators. A voice
coil actuator is an electromagnetic actuator that generally consists
The advance of precision actuators and guide structures allows of coils of winding placed in a magnetic field, and force is pro-
for the development of optical instruments which have a beam duced when current flows through the coil. Although it can generate
pointing technology with nanometer accuracy.1–5 It can be uti- a large steering angle, it has disadvantages such as low resonance
lized for interferometer and magnetic imaging applications.6,7 Also, frequency and high power consumption characteristics.16–19 By con-
for the semiconductor equipment in which precise beam steer- trast, piezoelectric laser scanners have several advantages, for exam-
ing and fast moving time are important, an optical instrument ple, high speed and resolution and compact size. But they have a
such as a laser scanning device is applied in the microlaser fab- small scanning range due to the small displacement of a piezoelectric
rication machine.8–10 For beam pointing and fast steering, typ- actuator—only tens of micrometers.20–24
ically, galvanoscanners and polygon mirrors have been used in In most optics applications in the industrial field, especially
the industrial field. First, galvanoscanners can meet the tilting microlaser fabrication, a steering angle of several degrees and a
angle and mirror size but cannot meet the speed and resolu- repeating motion of hundreds of times per second are required.
tion because of the electric motor and mechanical bearing.11–14 Also, the overall size of the scanner should be as small as possible
Second, the polygon mirror can satisfy the requirement of the because the speed of the microlaser fabrication machine increases.
tilting angle, but it is not adequate for the microlaser fabrica- But the steering angle of the piezoelectric laser scanner is limited
tion application requiring an accurate machining profile with high due to the small expansion capability of the piezoelectric actuators.
resolution.9,15 Also, it is difficult to obtain the fast response characteristics because
A recent development in optical instrument is the use of a two- the lever mechanism can degrade the speed of the piezoelectric laser
dimensional laser scanner by incorporating the precision actuators, scanner.25–27
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In this paper, we present a two-dimensional laser scanner TABLE I. Design requirements for the high-speed microlaser fabrication machine.
based on four piezoelectric actuators, which can steer 1○ in two
directions with high speed characteristics of 200 Hz. To overcome Tilting angle of the scanner 1 (deg)
the small expansion capability of piezoelectric actuators, the dis- Operational speed of the scanner 200 (Hz)
placement mechanism with two levers in series was used to magnify Tilting resolution of the scanner 16 (μrad)
the end tip of the lever connected to a 0.5-in. mirror. Also, to obtain Laser beam 532 (nm)
the high-speed response characteristics of the piezoelectric scanner, Laser beam diameter 30 (mm)
the natural frequencies of the designed scanner are calculated by Scan area 20 × 20 (mm2 )
using the finite element analysis technique. To verify the perfor- Focal spot size 10 (μm)
mance of the proposed piezoelectric scanner for the microlaser pro-
cessing application, the prototype was built of titanium which has
a very high specific stiffness, and its open loop frequency response
the high-speed microlaser fabrication machine which can fabricate
characteristics have been investigated. The actual machining test of
small mechanical parts such as the optical ferrule or switch, as
the proposed laser scanner on the burning paper is performed to
shown in Fig. 1(a). This machine consists of three moving slides to
show that it is capable of steering the laser light 1○ with a frequency
move the work piece, a piezoelectric scanner to steer the beam in
of 200 Hz.
two directions, and a granite bed to prevent the deformation due
to the thermal gradient. Also, the optical setup of this machine is
shown in Fig. 1(b). The laser beam is reflected on the glass mir-
II. DISPLACEMENT AMPLIFICATION MECHANISM ror which is steered by a piezoelectric scanner, and it reaches the
FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL PIEZOELECTRIC SCANNER focal plane through the telecentric F-θ lens, as shown in Fig. 1(b).
The design requirements of the two-dimensional piezoelectric The two-dimensional piezoelectric scanner should be able to gen-
scanner in our research are shown in Table I. These come from erate precise motion with a relatively small tilting angle, high
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resolution, and high speed. There can be other options satisfying voltage amplifier. The motion of the piezoelectric actuator is trans-
these design requirements—galvanoscanners and polygon mirrors. mitted through the 1st and the 2nd lever, and the displacement of the
First, galvanoscanners can meet the tilting angle and mirror size end point of the 2nd lever is magnified according to the magnifica-
but cannot meet the speed and resolution because of the electric tion ratio which results in rapid motion of the 0.5-in. mirror in two
motor and mechanical bearing. Second, the polygon mirror can sat- directions.
isfy the requirement of tilting angle, but it is not adequate for the In terms of geometric parameters, we manufactured the main
microlaser fabrication application requiring an accurate machin- body of our piezoelectric scanner assembly in the size of 52 (horizon-
ing profile with high resolution. Therefore, we chose the preci- tal) × 21 (vertical) × 44 (thickness) (mm). To realize the arm length
sion laser scanner based on the piezoelectric actuators because they of the lever mechanism for the tilting angle and sufficient stiffness,
can steer the mirror at a relatively small angle (1○ ) and generate we determined the horizontal and vertical sizes of the lever hinges.
accurate motion with high resolution (16 μrad) and high speed Also, 4 piezoelectric actuators were selected considering the driving
(200 Hz). forces according to the mass of the mirror and requirement of speed.
The details of a two-dimensional piezoelectric scanner assem- The thickness of the levers was designed to prevent the deflection
bly in this investigation are shown in Fig. 1(c). It is composed of of each lever. Also, the length of the mirror mount was determined
a main body, a mirror mount, a cover, a 1st lever, a 2nd lever, considering the maximum stress in the neck of the mount should
a support structure, several elastic hinges, and four piezoelectric not exceed the yield stress of titanium, and the tilting angle is gen-
actuators. A 0.5-in. glass mirror is mounted on the mirror mount, erated above the design requirement (1○ ) through the finite element
which is moved by the 2nd lever. Four piezoelectric actuators are analysis result.
of stacked type, 20 mm in length and 5 × 5 mm2 in cross sec- Figure 2 shows the schematic of the displacement mechanism.
tion, which are preloaded by the support structure. The piezoelec- When the piezoelectric actuator pushes the 1st lever upward, its
tric actuator bolted to the main body pushes the 1st lever back expansion can be amplified at the end point of the 1st lever. Also,
and forth, following the command signal provided through a high another expansion can happen at the 2nd lever and amplify the
motion of the 2nd lever. The rotation of the 2nd lever makes the
mirror mount deflect in two directions, θx and θy . In this research,
two amplification ratios, 2.675 and 5.435, were used for the 1st and
the 2nd lever, respectively. Although the maximum expansion of the
piezoelectric actuator is 15 μm, the actual expansion of the piezoelec-
tric actuator becomes smaller after it is integrated into the structures.
Also, the deflection of the hinge can occur. Therefore, we assumed
the expansion of the piezoelectric actuator is limited to 20–30%
of the maximum expansion and the tilting angle can be estimated
as 1.8○ –2.7○ .
To verify the capability of the designed scanner, the displace-
ment of the mirror mount was estimated by using the finite element
analysis technique when the force of the piezoelectric actuator is
150 N, as shown in Fig. 3(a). As a result of computation, the tilt-
ing angle of the mirror mount reaches 1.07○ . Also, Fig. 3(b) shows
that the maximum von Mises stress level at the mirror mount part is
calculated as 238 MPa, and this is below the allowed yield stress level
of the titanium alloy. Also, for the high-speed response characteris-
tics, the natural resonance frequency was estimated to be 891 Hz,
as depicted in Fig. 3(c). This value is 4–5 times larger than the
200 Hz required for the successful operation of the piezoelectric
scanner.
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FIG. 3. Finite element analysis result of the proposed two-dimensional piezoelectric scanner. (a) Static deformation. (b) von Mises stress distribution. (c) First resonant
frequency (891 Hz).
and a laser beam is inputted to the mirror. Then, we can detect angle θ, the reflected laser beam moves at twice the steering angle,
the reflected beam reaching the measurement surface to which 2θ, in the measurement surface. Therefore, PSDM can detect the dis-
a high-resolution noncontact Position Sensing Detector Mount tance d that the reflected beam moves in the measurement surface.
(PSDM) is fixed [Fig. 5(a)]. When the scanner is rotating at steering Also, the steering angle can be calculated by dividing the distance d
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FIG. 5. Motion measurement of the piezoelectric scanner. (a) Schematic. (b) Measurement result.
FIG. 7. Bode plot of the piezoelectric scanner from 0 to 500 Hz. (a) Magnitude. (b) Phase.
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by the distance L between the measurement surface and the center respectively. The difference is due to different expansions of the
of the mirror of the piezoelectric scanner. Typically, the displace- piezoelectric actuators in each pair. In most cases, piezoelectric
ment signal ranges from −5 mm to +5 mm with a resolution of actuators can produce different levels of expansions because of the
about 0.05 μm, and the bandwidth of the PSDM is set at 300 Hz. nonlinear hysteresis when we used the actuator without the inter-
As shown in Fig. 5(b), the first pair of piezoelectric actuators was nal feedback sensor, for example, strain gauge which can mea-
moved upward from 0 to +5 V, the point at which the reflected sure the displacement of the end point. Also, the mirror mount
laser beam moves in the x direction inside the measurement surface. in our research can move freely in the z-direction because there is
Also, it can move in the y direction at a constant x-coordinate no mechanical constraint. This can result in difficulty in rotating
when the other pair of actuators moves downward from 0 to the scanner precisely because the rotation center of the mirror is
+5 V. Thus, the rectangle shaped trajectory can be displayed in changing.
the oscilloscope, showing the maximum steering angles which the For the measurement of dynamic characteristics of the two-
two-dimensional piezoelectric scanner can produce. The measure- dimensional piezoelectric scanner, a test bed was built using a
ment of the steering angle showed that the piezoelectric scanner laser, a dynamic signal analyzer, a voltage amplifier, and a PSDM,
can steer the laser by 2.12○ and 1.22○ in θx and θy directions, as shown in Fig. 6. The voltage amplifier provides the voltage
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FIG. 9. Tracking result of the piezoelectric scanner in the θy direction. (a) Block diagram for feedback control. (b) Tracking result (amplitude 0.43○ and frequency 10 Hz).
ranging from 0 to 100 V for a piezoelectric scanner by getting the When the two actuators excite the hinge structures with frequencies
input signal with the swept sine method from the dynamic sig- ranging up to 500 Hz (in the θx or θy direction), the plot provides
nal analyzer, and it can supply a maximum peak output current of an insight into the resonance features of the piezoelectric scanner,
60 mA for fast expansion of the piezoelectric actuator that behaves including the prominent peaks at frequencies of 349 Hz and 377 Hz.
like a capacitive load. The output signal from the PSDM can mea- This characteristic is due to the structural properties of 1st and 2nd
sure the steering angle of the scanner, and therefore, the dynamic levers and the mass of the mirror. Also, this result is in good agree-
characteristics of the piezoelectric scanner can be found by ana- ment with the one by finite element analysis as in Fig. 3(c) if we
lyzing these steering angles and input signals with the swept sine consider the weight of the glass mirror at the top of the piezoelectric
signal. scanner.
Figure 7 shows the frequency response plot when the 0.5-in. Figure 8 shows the test result when the step movements of
mirror was adopted at the top of the two-dimensional scanner. 0.879 μm and 1.357 μm in x and y direction in the measurement
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