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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
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.
Technical Article
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.
Technical Article
Measuring Laser Position & Pointing Stability
Laser pointing accuracy and pointing stability are defined as an angular value, usually in milli- or microradians (mr or μr). Pointing accuracy is simply whether the laser points where ...
Technical Note
Beam Width Measurement Accuracy
To determine the effect of special measurement algorithms generated by Spiricon, a simulated beam width calculation was performed. A mathematically generated Gaussian beam was computer ...
Technical Article
Instantaneous Measurement of M² Beam Propagation Ratio in Real-Time
A new instrument design allows the M² beam propagation ratio to be measured in real time at the update rate of a standard CCD camera. This allows lasers from single shot to CW to be ...
Technical Article
The Importance of CO2 Laser Optimization
Your laser can be one of your most valuable investments. But as anyone working with lasers knows, it can also be a source of frustration when it comes to optimizing it for your manufacturing ...
Technical Article
System Integration of Fiber Lasers and Its Effects on Laser Quality
We’ve heard for several years about the high quality beams that the fiber laser produces. Laser quality is usually defined by an M2 measurement. The closer the M2 measurement is to ...
Technical Article
Which Camera Technologies Work Best for Beam Profiling Applications, Part 3: Beam Aperturing Methods
For direct second moment D4σ calculations, providing a proper baseline is only a partial answer. We observed that the noise in the outlying regions surrounding the beam can yield wild ...
Technical Article
Which Camera Technologies Work Best for Beam Profiling Applications
It seemed that everyone had their own “correct method” for how a laser beam should be characterized. The two measurements requested most frequently were Beam Width and Divergence. A ...
Technical Note
Interconnecting Ophir Products and Accessories
Ophir provides mutual interconnections between different Ophir products via adapters with various threads, designed to exactly fit required optical path distances for each device.
Technical Article
Three Tips to Protect Your BeamSquared Device
Here are three tips how to ensure precise measurement with your Ophir BeamSquared system over years.
Technical Article
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 ...
Technical Article
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 ...
Technical Article
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 ...
Technical Article
Reducing Production Waste with Laser Profiling
A laser profiling system can be of great benefit in helping to characterize and identify which variables affect product quality and waste minimization.
Technical Note
Total Optical Path Length with Beam Splitters on 4.5 mm Recessed CCD Cameras
Often we get requests for the Total Optical Path Length when beam splitters are used on our line of 4.5 mm recessed CCD cameras.
Technical Article
Reimaging UV Laser Beam Profiling
Ophir Photonics offers a number of solutions for profiling UV laser beams. Spot sizes from 0.15 mm to over 25 mm can be safely profiled without the risk of camera sensor damage or ...
Technical Note
Finding the Center of the NanoScan
The center of the NanoScan can be found by the following steps.
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