The FIT Product Lines: A New Approach on Thermal Heads Design

Some sections of this website cover FIT detectors, designed to be used for different applications: as laserprobes, where a full product line bears the same Fit name and as detector heads for the PLUS monitor or the Laser Process Monitor LPM.

Fit, acronym for Fast Integrative Thermopile, is a measurement technique of temperature dynamics throughout thermopile sensors developed by LaserPoint (Patented.) which led to a novel family of detectors. A dedicated algorithm converts sensors data into fast, repeatable and precise readings.

Fit detectors have provided a series of breakthroughs in laser measurement: infact, while keeping the advantages of thermopile detector heads (e.g. their use at any wavelength or their fast response times).

Fits need no water cooling even when working at several kilowatts, while still allow repeated measurements. As a laserprobe, no other similar instrument on the market has ever been so repeatable and precise, before. Fit detectors can be used in all those cases where availability of cooling water is an issue or when space is limited but, above all, where long term laser power measurements are not necessary while quick, occasional checks are enough.

In these cases the Fit detectors, either associated to a PLUS or LPM Monitor or working as a standalone laserprobe, provide measurements with a performance, in terms of accuracy and repeatability, comparable to power meter measurements, at a real fraction of their cost.