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Laser Power & Energy Measurement and Laser Beam Analysis Catalog
Details on all of our laser measurement instruments.
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Laser Beam Profilers Catalog
A laser beam profiler will increase your chance of success anytime you wish to design or apply a laser or when you find your laser system is no longer meeting specifications. You would ...
Technical Article
BeamWatch Applications Generate Interest at FMA’s ALAW
ALAW is an excellent forum to discover and discuss the latest technologies with respect to material processing that involves the use of a laser. Being in the Detroit area, the conversations ...
Technical Article
Solving a Difficult Military Beam Alignment Task
Providing instrumentation on-board a 6800 ton submarine that ensures true and accurate pitch, yaw, and roll data is essential. Laser based systems are required to achieve this level ...
Technical Article
Industrial Laser Beam Profiling: What’s Going On Under The Hood?
Whether you’re new to lasers or you’ve been working with them for some time, you may be wondering what all the fuss is over laser beam profiling. Why worry about the quality of the ...
Technical Note
Benefits of Beam Profiling
How can I be certain that my Beam Profiler is measuring accurately? Is there a standard calibration methodology?
Technical Note
Integrated Solutions
Ophir has an unparalleled collection of cameras, beam splitters/attenuators, beam expanders, beam reducers, UV to visible light converters, and other components that allow you to profile ...
Technical Article
Consistent Measuring Technology Ensures the Quality of Medical Lasers
Case Study: During production and, above all, during the final inspection of the laser systems, the measured parameters are continually compared against the specifications.
Technical Article
How to Easily Speed Up End-of-line Quality Testing for Lasers
To ensure the high quality of each laser system, thorough end-of-line testing is mandatory before a laser system is delivered.
Technical Article
Beam Attenuation: Key to Successful Beam Profiling
Beam attenuation is critical because lasers designed for cutting sheet steel will have no trouble cutting through a beam profiler if the beam power isn't attenuated.
Technical Article
Laser Measurement Systems: Best Practices
When purchasing a highly advanced laser for use in the workplace, such as a laser, learning how to properly apply, troubleshoot, and evaluate that device becomes very important.
Application Notes
BeamWatch Optimizes Laser Process Development
The development of this multi-focal laser welding process was significantly accelerated by the compact Ophir BeamWatch measuring device from MKS, which measures laser beams in real ...
Technical Article
Keeping Your Additive Manufacturing Laser in Spec
Among hundreds of variables that are associated with an Additive Manufacturing process are the many variables associated with the laser that is used within the system. These lasers ...
Technical Article
Never work outside the specification … never?
Ensuring beam quality in automated industrial laser materials processing poses many challenges for measurement technology. MKS addressed these challenges by developing Ophir BeamWatch ...
Technical Article
SLM Troubleshooting Made Easy with BeamWatch® AM
When we developed BeamWatch AM, we not only drew diagrams and thought about great features, we also talked to experienced manufacturers of selective laser melting (SLM) machines about ...
Technical Article
Beam Profiling in the SWIR Range: What You Need to Know
When applications call for beam diagnostics in the SWIR spectral range, specifically the 1.5 μm region, there are two practical options available: a phosphor-coated CCD camera or an ...
Technical Article
How to Make Laser Welding and Cutting Affordable and Sustainable
Automated measurement of important parameters in the production context improve quality and ensure transparent processes; this also applies to laser welding and cutting.
Technical Article
What to Expect in a Laser Profiling Demonstration
You may be wondering what to expect when you ask us for a laser beam profiling demo. Here's how it works.
Technical Note
“What’s This” function in BeamGage 6.8
Problem: The “What’s This” feature only opens to the first page of the manual in Adobe Ready XI. Solution: Open your Adobe Reader XI
Technical Note
Using the built in photodiode trigger on the SP620U and SP503U cameras
With the introduction of BeamGage the capability of using the built in photodiode trigger in the SP camera series is now available.
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