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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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Three Tips to Protect Your BeamSquared Device

Here are three tips how to ensure precise measurement with your Ophir BeamSquared system over years.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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Scanning Slit vs Camera-Based Beam Analyzers

In part 1, we discussed camera technologies that are available for covering various wavelengths. There are similar options for scanning slit profilers.
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The Focal Length Divergence Measurement Method

The Focal Length Divergence measurement method is based upon the beam width of a focused beam’s spot size and the focal length of the focusing optic.
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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 ...
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The Challenge of Splitting Laser Beams for Solar Panel Manufacturing

The challenge is to split a laser beam into multiple parts that perform equally for the scribing process. In this case, the laser needed to be split into four equal beams and delivered ...
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Solar Cell Manufacturing Requires Critical Laser Scribing Processes

The quality, shape, size and intensity of the laser must be closely monitored and controlled for this process to produce a solar cell that meets specification and cost requirements. ...
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Reducing Production Bottlenecks Using Real Time Laser Beam Measurements

The 1780 ModeScan determines M² and other beam propagation parameters of a laser in real time. Traditionally, these laser measurements were performed by directing the laser beam through ...
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The Challenge of Focus Shift in High Power Laser Material Processing

As the demand for higher laser powers continues to increase, the problem of stresses on laser system components becomes more prevalent. One of these, “focus shift,” is caused by thermal ...
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What Happens to Your Weld When Welding with High Power Over Long Periods of Time?

A customer of ours in the shipyard market owns a powerful 12KW fiber laser. Most of the time, they weld small metals pieces. But for a new application, it required a new process.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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