Watch: BeamWatch AM Additive Manufacturing
Lightweight, complex mechanical parts can now be “built to order” quickly and automatically, thanks to Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies. AM [&…
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New features in StarLab 3.5
StarLab is Ophir’s easy-to-use, yet powerful, laser measurement software that turns a PC into a multi-channel laser power / energy
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The Evolution of Man-made Light Sources
Explore how man‑made light evolved from fire to LEDs, and how modern lighting technologies shape efficiency, color quality, and everyday illumination.
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New: Meet our Beam Profile Finder!
So maybe you would like to measure the beam profile of your laser or light source? As you probably know,
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A Closer Look: Wide Beam Imager [WB-I]
WB-I enables Far- Field beam profiling of diverging or wide sources such as VCSELs and LEDs, during any stage of a production process, on customer site or directly inside devices.
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Choosing the Right Photodiode Power Sensor
This post is meant to help the uninitiated and trained professional alike to navigate the process of choosing the right photodiode for their application.
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Meet the Team: Raphi Cohen, One of Our Sr. Scientists, Reveals the Biggest Takeaways from His Recent Projects
If you’ll ask Raphi Cohen, Sr. Scientist at Ophir Photonics, what’s the favorite part of his work he’ll simply reply:
The Focal Spot Size Calculator
There are matrix methods that can be used for propagating the diameter and curvature of the beam, but if your main interest is simply the location of the new focus (i.e. beam waist) or the size of the focal spot, you can use the Focal Spot Size Calculator tool on the Ophir website. Dr. Ivker Our expert – will explain you how
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A Shortcut for Calculating Laser Power Density
This post was originally posted in 2012. It is still very popular, so I wanted to share it here in
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Integrating Spheres, Pulse Stretching & Asymmetry
One of the really useful features of integrating spheres is that they can have multiple detector ports. Thus, more than one detector can be attached to make different measurements in parallel. As for all measuring devices, we need to understand the nature of the device because it can affect the measurement results.
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Watch: Pyrocam Measures IR and UV Lasers
This video explains why the Spiricon Pyrocam pyroelectric camera is the overwhelming camera of choice for laser beam diagnostics of IR and UV lasers and high temperature thermal imaging for scientific research to industrial high power lasers to safety and defense applications.
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Fiber Optic Adapters for Ophir Sensors
Many laser applications involve measuring beams that come out of an optical fiber. Learn all about the solutions Ophir has to offer
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