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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 ...
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Rayleigh Scatter, and Adhering to ISO 11146

This document is intended to show how the process of obtaining data and providing measurements using Ophir-Spiricon’s Rayleigh-scatter beam profiling technology, BeamWatch®, aligns ...
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Overcoming the Challenges of Measuring High Power NIR Lasers

High power laser application has significantly increased in recent years due to new production techniques that enable cheaper manufacturing and operating costs. Applications of high-power ...
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Quality Assurance in Additive Manufacturing

Whether in research or in production, the laser parameters must be checked regularly. For this purpose, Fraunhofer IAPT generally turns to the Ophir BeamWatch AM, which measures the ...
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Analyzing Small, High Power Beams at Focus in Manufacturing Applications

Determining the beam profile at the beam focus of these lasers is critical to verify and improve manufacturing product quality. However, there are enormous challenges that must be overcome ...
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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 ...
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Evaluating a Multimodal Beam

Researchers are devising ways of generating and using more complex higher-order multimode formats, such as a TEM03 or TEM33. Some current examples are: telecommunications, analytical ...
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Achieving Standardized Measurements with BeamWatch AM

BeamWatch AM has been designed specifically for use in the additive manufacturing industry to provide non-interfering real-time beam measurement at the location of the working plan ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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University Research Team Faces Challenges of Measuring Multiple Lasers

The scientific community is often faced with the requirement of testing, validating, or merely qualifying several laser sources planned for a particular project.
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Characterizing a Laser Used in Metal Additive Manufacturing Equipment

A developer of power-bed additive manufacturing systems needed a beam profiling system that could be used by their field technicians for setup and maintenance of customers’ lasers.
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LIDAR Guns, Accuracy, and Speeding Tickets

Anyone who has driven a vehicle has encountered a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system in action. Some of you have even found out how much it can cost in terms of speeding fines! ...
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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 ...
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The Challenge of Focus Shift in High Power Laser Material Processing

As the demand for higher laser powers continues to increase, the problem of stresses on laser system components becomes more prevalent. One of these, “focus shift,” is caused by thermal ...
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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 ...
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NanoScan Applications

NanoScan applications are normally processes and the problems that are solved by them are usually one of the processes, such as an alignment, collimation, or a precise focusing process ...
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High Power Defined

High power is a fairly indistinct term that means different things in different contexts. For our purposes, "high power" is defined as between 100W and 5000W, however the High Power ...
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