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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 ...
Application Notes
Additive Manufacturing
AM involves building up a structure by adding material to it layer by layer, with each layer being a precise cross section of the structure. Originally used for rapid prototyping, AM ...
Technical Note
Finding the Center of the NanoScan
The center of the NanoScan can be found by the following steps.
Technical Note
BeamGage Multiple Processes and Local Port Communication
BeamGage is a multiple process application with three process types which run when BeamGage is operating: Spiricon.ConsoleService.exe, Spiricon.DataServer.exe, and Spiricon.Version5.exe. ...
Technical Article
Image Of Laser From Rayleigh Scattering Directly Correlated To Beam Waist Measurements Of High-Power Lasers
This paper will discuss how the signal of the laser produced from Rayleigh Scattering can put to rest any concerns by the laser user of damaging their laser measurement equipment. The ...
Technical Article
Measuring Pulsed Lasers with NanoScan 2s
The NanoScan 2s is the newest scanning slit, sensor-based, beam profiling system from Ophir-Spiricon LLC. It can profile pulsed laser beams with repetition rates in the 10 kHz range ...
Technical Note
A Discussion of Laser Beam Profiling and the Subject of Accuracy
How can I be certain that my Beam Profiler is measuring accurately? Is there a standard calibration methodology?
Technical Article
Overcoming Barriers to Industrial Laser Performance Measurement
During the development of these laser systems and installation in the applications in which they will be put into service, performance measurements of the components and the system ...
Technical Note
How to Set BeamGage to Lock Out Making Changes to Settings Inadvertently
BeamGage has the ability to lock out the ability to make changes to the settings in case you inadvertently change something you shouldn't have, or if you want to lock out operators ...
Technical Article
Automation in Your Face: Let Machines Do What Machines Do Best
So how did this whole concept of an “Automation Interface” come about? Well, here is my short-short history on the topic. In the beginning, all programs were simple. Users had simple ...
Technical Note
BeamGage Profiling with .Net Automation Interface and LabVIEW®
BeamGage Professional and BeamGage Enterprise version 5.7 are supported with Automation via .Net components. Both include a LabVIEW example that can be run with the LabVIEW Run-Time ...
Technical Note
BeamScan Replacement Chart
As the BeamScan products reach the end of their useful lifetime, we are often asked which NanoScan models most closely match an existing BeamScan model.
Technical Note
Care of NanoScan Apertures
The NanoScan slit and pinhole aperture substrates are very thin and extremely fragile. Any physical contact will likely damage them. For example, fiber tips placed too close to the ...
Technical Note
Installing the Pyrocam III
in general we recommend to not use 4-pin on-board 1394 FireWire ports (that can be found on some laptop computers) since they tend to be less reliable and/or cause the Pyrocam III to ...
Technical Note
Selecting the Correct Lens for M² Measurements with NanoModeScan
With the broad range of wavelengths that can be measured with this instrument, the first consideration is the material and anti-reflective coating of the lens. There are a number of ...
Technical Note
What is Convolution, or How Small of a Beam Can I Measure?
With the current CCD technology, this means that a CCD can measure a beam of approximately 40-50 um diameter. A scanning slit profiler is known for being able to measure smaller beams—but ...
Technical Note
BeamGage Produces Five Different Industry Standard File Types
BeamGage produces five different types of files. All use industry standard formats. The list of file types and their naming extensions are as follows:
Technical Note
Why You Should Not Use Image Files For Data Analysis
Image logging and export formats in BeamGage are intended for use as easily created screenshots for reports and presentations. Alternatively there are real data formats for use in mathematical ...
Technical Note
BeamGage Professional Partitions with Multiple Beams on One Display
The Partition feature, available in BeamGage Professional, allows subdividing the camera imager into separate regions, called partitions, and which can then compute separate beam results ...
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