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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Cooling of OEM Sensors: Heat Sinking
Many of Ophir’s OEM power sensors have a maximum average power specification of “XX watts free standing, YY watts heat
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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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Effects of Incidence Angle on Measurements
Are you measuring a laser beam coming at an angle correctly? Ever wonder how your laser power measurements are affected
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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 Beam Dumps
Beam Dumps are used to safely absorb the unused part of a laser beam, protecting nearby personnel and equipment. In
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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StarLite USB: Overview of Ophir’s newest meter
The new StarLite power/energy meter is an economical instrument that supports all our newest lines of standard sensors. This video
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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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