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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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“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
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Designing Low Cost Inspection Process for LED’s

In this application, our customer manufactures encoders that incorporate LED’s (light emitting diodes) that have a collimating lens attached. The LED’s produce between 850nm and 880nm ...
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Uncovering Cause of Bad Welds in Fiber Delivery System

When installing a fiber delivered laser system, checking the quality of the delivered beam is important. The beam quality can be checked at the couplers and verified through the optics. ...
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Beam Profiling: A Primer

Laser beam profiling provides the tools to characterize the laser and know precisely what the beam is doing at the point of the work and if the optics are having the desired effect. ...
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Attenuation-Induced Error Due to Thermal Lensing

it is possible to stack up a sufficient optical density to reduce the power of a 1W laser to the nW levels that will not saturate the detector. Unfortunately, doing this will more than ...
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Deming Must Be Wrong

W. Edwards Deming said, "If you can't measure it, you can't control it," and "You cannot inspect quality into the product; it is already there." Instead of trying to inspect-in quality, ...
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Why Beam Profiling at 1550 nm Requires InGaAs Cameras

A recent application called for the beam analysis of a 1550 nm laser source with a challenging optical arrangement. Signal loss occurred at each beam transfer across multiple reflective ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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