Laser Beam Analysis

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Details on all of our laser measurement instruments.

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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

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 …

Technical Note

BeamGage Professional Partitions with Multiple Beams on One Display

The Partition feature, available in BeamGage Professional, allows subdividing the camera imager into separate regions, called partitions, and which can then compute separate beam results …

Technical Article

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. …

Technical Article

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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Determining Damage Thresholds for Laser Measurement with a Slit Based Profiler

Many applications require that precise information about laser beam sizes be known, but these lasers may be capable of damaging the profilers. The slit-based profiler, such as the Photon …

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Magnification Calibration Procedure

The beam profiler magnification calibration involves measuring spot centroids for known beam position translations. This can be done either by moving the profiler or moving the spot. …

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Mode-Field Diameter and “Spot Size” Measurements of Lensed and Tapered Specialty Fibers

The Mode-Field Diameter (MFD) and “spot size” of an assortment of lensed and tapered specialty fibers were determined from far-field and near-field measurements.

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NanoScan Common causes of Damage to Scanheads & Reasons for Out-of-Tolerance Conditions

Scanhead damage can be categorized into two main types; Laser and Mechanical. Laser damage is the most prevalent, and results from exposure to lasers with excessive laser power/energy …

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Which Camera Technologies Work Best for Beam Profiling Applications, Part 2: Baseline Methods and Mode Effects

This paper examines the effects of baseline caused errors in beam width measurements using the four most common methods for calculating a beam width.

Software

Laser Beam Analysis Software

Our laser beam analysis software performs rigorous data analyses on key laser parameters.

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Interconnecting Ophir Products and Accessories

Ophir provides mutual interconnections between different Ophir products via adapters with various threads, designed to exactly fit required optical path distances for each device.

Technical Article

Three Tips to Protect Your BeamSquared Device

Here are three tipps how to ensure precise measurement with your Ophir BeamSquared system over years.

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 Article

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.

Technical Note

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.

Technical Article

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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