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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 Article
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 ...
Technical Article
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 ...
Technical Article
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 ...
Technical Note
NanoModeScan: Which Scan Heads Not to Use
We do not recommend using the smallest scan heads (3.5 mm aperture, 1.8 μm slit) for M2 measurement, because they are subject to a distortion effect called vignetting: Scanning slits ...
Technical Note
How to Profile Pulsed Lasers with a Scanning Slit
Scanning slit profilers boast several advantageous qualities, such as the ability to measure high powers without attenuation, relatively inexpensive infrared compatibility, and ...
Technical Note
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.
Technical Note
How Can You Tell if Your NanoScan Has a Bad Slit?
It isn’t always obvious when a NanoScan has a damaged slit. There’s no loud sound and often no obvious problem with the equipment or the results. Since the damage is often confined ...
Technical Note
Beam Profiling in a Job Shop: Industrial CO2 Pulsed Laser
In this laser, a significant amount of the energy is far out in the wings of the beam. This particular laser was used to cut steel, and it was found that, with time, there were variations ...
Technical Note
You Just Bought a New Laser. What Beam Shape Did You Get?
Many laser users sympathize with this situation after enduring similar problems with their own lasers. Production line shut-downs, cash-flow disasters, late deliveries, irate customers ...
Technical Article
Just a Moment in Time: Old Acrylic Blocks Are a Thing of the Past
If you have been in the laser cutting business long enough you eventually will have one of those days when, no matter what you do, the laser will not cut your parts cleanly…if at a ...
Technical Note
Measurement of Mode Field Diameters of Tapered Fibers and Waveguides for Low Loss Components
Major hurdles in this technology are created by the smaller waveguide channel widths. While all sorts of impressive feats can be performed on the waveguide chip, the chip needs to be ...
Technical Note
Measuring Lasers Used in Photovoltaic Solar Panel Manufacturing
Measuring the profile of a high power density beam with a small diameter can be tricky. Cameras are not very good at measuring beams with diameters of less than 50μm, and the attenuation ...
Technical Note
Multiple Beam Analysis with the NanoScan
The NanoScan software allows the characterization of up to 16 simultaneous beams entering the aperture, allowing the user to examine and evaluate various standard beam parameters displayed ...
Technical Note
Beam Profiling a Laser Welding Station
Measurements were performed away from beam focus, and near the beam focus. Additional time could be spent measuring through the entire beam waist caustic to determine the exact focal ...
Technical Article
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 ...
Technical Article
Making High Power Measurements with Little to No Attenuation
High power is a fairly indistinct term that means different things in different contexts. High power laser beams are handled by using reflective materials, and the level of reflectivity ...
Technical Article
Measuring Divergence of Custom Optical Fibers
Measurement of the divergence of such sources can be made using either the Goniometric Radiometer or NanoScan family of products. The accuracy and detail of the measurement depends ...
Technical Article
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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