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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 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
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
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.
Application Notes
Laser Forensics: The Invisible, Revealed and Measured
The underlying operational principle is based on the fact that residues of body fluids, natural oils and sweat absorb radiation in the infrared range.
Application Notes
Non-invasive Blood Glucose Monitor
Many non-invasive methods for measuring blood glucose have failed because they were not accurate enough: Glucose values in body fluids such as tears, saliva or sweat do not correlate ...
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
Battle Axe vs. Scalpel: How to Work with High Power Density Lasers
With lasers there will always be opportunities for improvement. Reliable technology for measuring the laser beam can really help with process optimization.
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 ...
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