One of the most important design goals of pneumatic vibration isolator is to achieve lower natural frequency. It is related to the isolator's compliance volume - the larger the volume, the lower the frequency. Unlike the conventional design of a compliance chamber (the volume of which affects natural frequency) and a damping chamber, Newport's patented Stabilizer hybrid chamber design consists of a small size initial chamber and a second damping chamber together as a unified hybrid chamber. Because the initial chamber is reduced dramatically in size, it forces the isolator to use the second chamber as part of the compliance volume, which greatly increases the compliance volume for a given package size, and greatly lowers the natural frequency.

The S-2000's superior horizontal isolation is achieved through a mechanical filter system. Compared with other manufacturers' contacting bearing surfaces, Newport introduces zero friction trifilar pendulum system emerged in energy dissipating oil to eliminate the friction that commonly disturb high accuracy applications, thus enabling isolation to much lower vibration levels as well as high accuracy table repositioning after disturbances. In addition, the S-2000 design features proprietary self centering capability, to better ensure isolator alignment and eliminate horizontal shorting which could happen in other designs.

Apart from its superior isolation design, S-2000 pneumatic vibration isolators also features robust and user friendly mechanical design for better user experience. Newport is the only manufacturer that provides 1.3 inches of height adjustment compensation in the isolator to allow for easy leveling of the entire system or alignment of separate tables. Compared to competitor's solution of using shims or putty before installation, Newport's design brings ease to fine-tuning the isolator height.

Our isolator sets include the individual isolators and accessories as well as a 3 leveling valve kit, pressure gauge, height adjustment wrench, 1/4 NPT male connector, and S-2000 users manual. Typically, sets of four isolators are used to support an optical table. Sets of six and eight isolators are also available for table with higher payloads or larger doubled table tops.