A Quick Guide to Profiling Small Laser Beams
When using a camera to profile your laser, it’s important to keep the ratio of laser size / pixel size […]
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Do You Use a High Average Power Pulsed Laser?
The average powers of pulsed lasers are getting higher and higher these days. With IPG Photonics’ fiber lasers, Trumpf’s solid
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Laser Beam Profiler Attenuation: The Right Way and the Wrong Way
When you want to profile your laser, you’ll notice that CCD cameras are generally way too sensitive to use as
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How to Measure Fiber-Coupled UV Light…
… from any type of source. Say you need to measure the power of a fiber-coupled UV source. The
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Laser Beam Too Big to Profile? Reduce It!
Ok, so obviously if your laser beam is too big you can just use a beam reducer to get it
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Laser Energy Sensor Specs: Step by Step
Finding the right sensor to measure your laser pulse energy can be daunting. It doesn’t help that measuring energy tends
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How to Profile Large, Small, and High Power Laser Beams
Don’t you wish there was a one size fits all beam profiler? I know I do. Problem is that the
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BeamGage Tutorial: Results Display Configuration
In this video, we demonstrate how to configure BeamGage to display the many possible measurement results of a laser under
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How to Increase Laser Welding Efficiency and Reduce Scrap
Stop me when this sounds familiar. Your laser welding system is not producing the quality welds you expected. You know
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Two Different Ways to Expand Your Laser Beam Are You Using the Right Method?
Whether your laser beam is too small or too large, you need to add some optics (an expander or reducer).
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Measuring the Power of a Pulsed Laser Beam
Pulsed lasers are complicated. When you’re dealing with a CW (continuous wave) laser, things are nice and simple. The laser
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Using a Laser Beam Expander – How and When?
Before I get into the ins and outs of correct beam expander usage, you’ve got to know when you need
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