Meet BeamWatch® Plus, Industry’s First Non-Contact Beam Profiler for High Power VIS and NIR Lasers
In case you’ve missed it, MKS Instruments, Inc has announced Ophir® BeamWatch® Plus, a non-contact beam profiling system for measuring focu…
Beam Profiling
Thank You for Visiting Us at 2023 Laser World of Photonics Trade Show!
We’d like to take a moment and share how much grateful we are for the incredible experience at Laser Munich
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Watch: Managing Laser Degradation in Industrial Applications
Lasers are made of physical matter. Therefore, the natural degradation of their materials can cause variability in performance. Aging optics
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Destroy the Target, Not Everything Else: Beam Management in High-Power Directed Energy Laser Projects
Since Columbia University graduate student Gordon Gould and Bell Laboratories scientists Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow (among others) coined the
Exact Cuts With a Laser: Recognizing and Compensating for Thermal Focus Shift
Read all about how Messer Cutting Systems uses Ophir BeamWatch for non-contact measurement of the laser beam! Precise cuts, sophisticated
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Overcoming the Challenges of Measuring High Power NIR Lasers
High power laser applications High power laser application has significantly increased in recent years due to new production techniques that
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What’s M-Squared, again?
Here’s a surprising statistic: Nine out of ten laser technicians have no idea what M² is. Most laser beam characteristics are
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New laser fails to perform according to specifications – What can you do about it?
Just imagine the following situation: you’re a well trained and experienced manufacturer engineer. Your company had just purchased a laser
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Beam Profiling 101: Intro to laser measurement
One of the most common questions Mark S. Szorik, Pacific Northwest Regional Sales Manager at Ophir Photonics is being asked,
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Reducing Production Waste with Laser Profiling and Characterization
A laser profiling system can characterize and identify which variables affect product quality and waste. Knowing and creating a process is stable, consistent, predictable, and capable goes a long way toward generating sustainable profit, waste minimization, and end customer satisfaction. Read how to do it here:
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Meet the Optical Vortex
Mark Ivker (Ophir’s Research Physicist) explains what would it take to fully characterize a general beam of light …
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Can a Simple Sensor Really Replace a Laser Beam Profiler?
So you need to profile your laser beam but are worried about the cost of a beam profiler? Or maybe
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