Imaging UV light with CCD Cameras
Want to profile your UV laser with a Silicon CCD camera?
Read this first.
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Beam Profiling
Non-Contact Beam Profiling of 100 kW and Above: How Can This Work?
I’ve mentioned BeamWatch before.
It’s an innovative technique for profiling high power lasers (1 kW and up).
I’ve even touched on the underlying Rayleigh scattering effect that makes this possible.
But how does this really work?
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How Stray Light Affects Laser Beam Profiling
CCD camera beam profilers are very sensitive to light.
So what happens when we consider ambient light? How about other light sources in the area, such as laser pumps?
There are two issues that can be caused by unwanted light getting into the camera:
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Factors to Consider When Choosing a Laser Beam Profiling System
What are the four things you need to know when selecting a laser beam profiling system? Learn from Ophir-Spiricon’s sales engineers – the experts in the field of measuring lasers – what you need to know to get the most out of your laser beam.
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Q&A: M-Squared Laser Beam Quality
What’s M-Squared, again?
If you’re not familiar with M2 already, it basically sums up your laser beam quality in a single number.
M2 takes a look at your beam caustic (the curve of the laser beam as it focuses and diverges again) and compares this to an ideal Gaussian beam caustic.
So if your beam is perfectly Gaussian, you’ll get M2 = 1. For high quality beams, M2 might be 1.1 or 1.2, for lower qualities you can get up to 3, 4 and even double digits for some low quality high power lasers.
So, how do you know what the M2 of your laser beam really is?
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What to Do when Your Laser Doesn’t Perform to Spec
You’re so upset you could spit.
You just got a new laser for your factory floor, but it just won’t make parts that pass inspection.
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Improve Your Laser Marking Process
Lasers are amazing. They can cut or weld, drill or solder. A very general application of laser materials processing is
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Industrial Laser Beam Measurement with ModeCheck
Spiricon’s ModeCheck enables quality cutting, marking, drilling, and ablating. Instantaneously “see” your beam and reduce set-up ti…
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How to Find the Perfect Laser Beam Profiler
I wish I could tell you that there is one super-profiler, and it will profile any laser with 100% accuracy!
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BeamGage Automation
BeamGage Professional and BeamGage Enterprise allow programmers to access all the functionality of the graphical user interface through LabView, Visua…
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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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High Power Laser Beam Profiling:A Day in the Life of a Laser Cutting Technician
Adam is a laser technician in a steel processing shop. His job is to make sure the YAG laser system
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