Capabilities

Blue Line delivers precise, innovative products and solutions for any environment or application.

BLUE LINE OFFERS:

  • The best product quality, performance, customer service, and value.

  • Products that meet all customer requirements, and come with detailed build documentation and test data.

  • Optimal performance for your application; achieved through Blue Line's partnership with you, the customer.

  • Systems that utilize eddy current sensors in either a single-ended or differential configuration.

  • Sensor Heads form-factored for optimal performance in your instrument.

  • Passive athermalization to match your mechanism.

  • Sensors for high vibration, cryogenic, and high vacuum environments.

  • Parts and materials with low-outgassing for use in space or in proximity to optical systems.

  • Radiation tolerant and radiation hardened designs for military and space applications.


QUALIFICATION:

  • Comprehensive testing to your rigorous requirements.

  • Shock and vibration.

  • Performance and survival at thermal extremes, in vacuum and at ambient pressures.

  • Electromagnetic Susceptibility and Emissions.

  • Exposure to Space Effects / Radiation.


CUSTOM ENGINEERING:

Our clients engage in leading-edge scientific study which requires precise solutions to their unique application requirements. In response, we are nimble and knowledgeable. Our small size enables us to respond quickly to questions and concerns, and our focused team can execute on a project with minimal turn. The breadth of our technology knowledge and highly specialized expertise are our best tools in providing customized solutions:

  • Customer/Application specific sensors and electronics form-factored to your envelope and interface requirements.

  • Custom firmware and actuator drivers combined with sensor feedback to implement closed loop systems within a single electronics package.

  • Firmware in our digital systems to implement sophisticated correction algorithms to improve system accuracy.

  • Field installation, monitoring and maintenance on a regular or as-needed basis.


INTEGRATION:

  • Sensor systems integrated into your mechanism or sub-assembly and tested at our facility.

  • Parallel integration of the sensors, actuators, mechanisms and optics can increase precision and reduce damage and contamination to sensitive components.


APPLICATIONS:

  • Platform stabilization

  • Mirror steering

  • Image stabilization

  • Laser communication

  • Inertial platforms

  • Directed energy

  • Relay mirrors

  • High-energy lasers

  • Micro-gravity research

  • Earth imaging/surveillance

  • Active or adaptive structures

  • Magnetic bearings

  • Magnetic levitation

  • Vibration cancellation

  • Mirror Segment Alignment

  • Pressure Sensing

  • Inertial Measurement