Length

Service

VSL has a complete range of facilities in dimensional measurement techniques: length, diameter, form or angle, from more than a metre to nanometre level, in 1D, 2D or 3D. This enables VSL to measure your product or prototype with a high degree of accuracy, and also to calibrate your measurement instruments or standards. Either in our high quality measurement laboratories or at your premises.

Method

All our measurements are traceable back to the metre, the 1/299 792 458th part of the distance light travels in a second in vacuum. The Dutch ‘metre’ is a special iodine stabilised He-Ne laser. In practice, a measured distance is compared directly or indirectly to the wavelength of a laser interferometer whose frequency is compared to that of the standard laser.

Application and clients

Measurements must be efficient and reliable wherever the dimensions of a product are important. Measurement departments in manufacturing companies use VSL to calibrate their measurement standards and instruments. Reliable measurements form an important part of the incoming and outgoing quality control. Producers of length measuring equipment ask VSL to provide their products with an internationally recognised certificate. VSL can make product measurements for companies in the high-precision industry with the highest attainable accuracy.

More information

For more information about this service, feel free to contact our Sales and

Planning staff. They will be pleased to provide you with an adequate and expert answer. Please send an email to vsl@vsl.nl or you can call +31 15 269 15 50.