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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 ...
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 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
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
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
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 Article
Competitiveness, Optimization, and Compliance in Industrial Laser Applications
A set of tools has become available in the past few years that allows end users of industrial lasers to optimize the laser process while complying with current ISO and AWS technical ...
Technical Article
Uneven Laser Heating Causes Parts to Fail Inspection
What happens when your company's new laser fails to perform according to specifications and your best customers are waiting weeks for delivery? Does the manufacturer send a field service ...
Technical Article
Lasers and Solar Cell Manufacturing, Scribing of Photovoltaic Materials
One aspect of the manufacturing process that is critical is the scribing of the photovoltaic material on the individual cells on the large panels. Lasers have proven to deliver highly ...
Technical Article
Resistances in Applying Industrial Laser Beam Characterization Techniques
With the advancements come more complex and “focused” (no pun intended) laser applications. In some cases, especially with industrial laser processes, it’s getting to the point where ...
Technical Note
Using ModeCheck to Compare CO2 Replacement Optics Beam Quality
Included are two screenshots from a recent test using the ModeCheck device from Ophir-Spiricon. The screens below show a comparison of a II-VI MP5 lens and Ophir Optics Black Magic ...
Technical Article
New Laser Technology Inspects Complex Aircraft Structures
Aircraft operators, manufacturers, and government agencies have worked hard to find acceptable technologies to inspect the newer generation aircraft and ensure a level of safely for ...
Technical Article
State-of-the-Art Report: Laser Beam Measuring Instruments
Laser beam characterization instruments provide the tools to know precisely what the laser beam is doing at the point of the work and if the optics are having the desired effect.
Technical Note
What is M Squared? See What Determines the Size of Your Beam Waist
M² or Beam Propagation Ratio, is a value that indicates how close a laser is to being a single mode TEM00 beam, which in turn determines how small a beam waist can be focused. For the ...
Technical Article
The Difficulties of Beam Profiling 193 nm DUV
For the best resolution, the Ophir-Spiricon BGP-USB-SP620 camera, with an array 7.1mm x 5.4mm prepared with 4.4um x 4.4um pixels and a total matrix of 1600 x 1200 pixels, was selected. ...
Technical Article
How to prolong the life of your beam profilers
There are many different types of Ophir beam profilers. In this article we want to outline some of the major damages we have encountered in our European Service & Calibration ...
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 ...
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.
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