StarBright Laser Power Meter [Video Tutorial]
The new Ophir StarBright is the most advanced of Ophir’s family of handheld laser meters. This video walks you through […]
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How to measure a Barcode scanning laser? [Updated]
Measuring the power of scanning lasers such as barcode scanners presents a problem. A bar code laser beam scans back and forth at a very high frequency so an ordinary photodiode power meter will not measure the power in the beam but rather the average power impinging on it, i.e. the power times the fraction of time the beam is on the detector. Therefore, when exposed to a scanned beam, the reading will be much lower than the actual power in the beam. For example, if a scanning laser delivers 2mW to a photodiode sensor and the beam is on the sensor only 1% of the time, the instrument will read only 0.02 mW.
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What Is an ND Filter? How You Should (and Shouldn’t) Use It
Short answer: A neutral density attenuator. Meaning? Long(er) answer: A filter that attenuates all wavelengths equally. Well, that’s an ideal
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Fiber Coupling of a Laser Diode
Accurately coupling an ND: YAG or another powerful laser into a fiber delivery system can be a challenging task. Here
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Beam profiling-interesting examples
Throughout the years we, at Ophir, have come across many interesting applications where our beam profilers and laser power sensors
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A Shortcut for Calculating Laser Power Density
Here’s a laser power density calculator, if that’s what you wanted. Read on if you’re interested in an easy way to
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Using COM to Integrate Ophir Meters into Your Own PC-Based Photonics Application
Why would you need to use Ophir’s COM Object Ophir’s world renowned StarLab application turns a PC into a laser
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Measuring Laser Power of Fiber Optic Cables
One of Ophirs clients was trying to measure transmission loss in fiber optic cables, using a PD300 sensor. He was
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Laser beam profiling- a key for "solar revolution"
In the past few years, along with the world’s need for alternative energy, the solar panel production industry is expanding
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Beam profilers – Real time monitoring
Beam profilers have many advantages over acrylic block burns for monitoring laser beam profiles. Beam profilers don’t release poisonous toxic
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Pyroelectric Sensors for Measuring High Repetition Rate Pulsed Lasers
Pyroelectric energy sensors are based on the principle that heat polarizes a pyroelectric crystal thereby causing generation of an electric
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Measuring Widely Diverging Beams
We often are asked about measuring the power of widely diverging beams and how to do so. First of all,
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