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A laser beam profiler will increase your chance of success anytime you wish to design or apply a laser or when you find your laser system is no longer meeting specifications. You would …

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Laser Measurement System Design Considerations– How to Measure the Beam Power Without Damaging Your Sensor?

First step - Get your laser parameters rightSo, you want to measure the power of a laser beam with your Ophir sensor. First of all, gather all of the laser parameters you can find: …

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Avoid Thermal Lensing When Profiling Your Laser Beam!

So, your laser power is a little high. No problem, just stick some attenuating filters in to lower the power, right? Not so fast.In some cases this can cause thermal lensing. If you’re …

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The Top Mistake Medical Device Engineers Make When Designing Laser Integration

We’ve all been there before.Struggling to reduce the cost of the BOM, we try to do everything ourselves.After all, you’re an engineer, aren’t you? You have your own staff of hardware …

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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!Of course that’s a pipe dream. There are tons of different laser types, so …

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Maintain Proper Laser Beam Parameters for Additive Manufacturing / Dagmar.Shafner

Additivemanufacturing (AM), including selective laser melting (SLM) and 3D printing,relies on its laser source to properly manufacture 3D-printed parts. The laseris at once the most …

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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 very thing that makes a beam profiler so perfect for one laser renders it useless for a different …

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How to Measure Laser Beam Width Regardless of Power Density

A typical concern when using a laser cutting machine is how to be sure the laser is optimized for the most efficient process. This means, is the laser power high enough? Is it focused …

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Your Map to Laser Beam Profiling Accessories:Which Cameras Do They Work With?

Few lasers can be profiled directly with a camera. Attenuation is almost always a must. Sometimes you might need additional optics as well.I discussed how to determine what accessories …

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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 term LASER in the 1950's, applications …

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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 - …

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How to Design Your Perfect Laser Beam with BeamMaker

BeamMaker helps engineers, technicians, and researchers understand a beam's modal content by creating a theoretically generated beam. Design your perfect beam profile in BeamMaker by …

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How to Increase Laser Welding Efficiency and Reduce Scrap

Stop me when this sounds familiar.Your laser welding system is not producing the quality welds you expected.You know what your laser’s power density should be and where the laser should …

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Measuring Beam Characteristics for Successful Laser Marking

Having worked in laser marking and engraving for several years, I can say that there is a certain mindset when it comes to laser quality that, in some cases, could be a dangerous one, …

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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 called laser marking. This can refer to a host of processes, like: …

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Measuring Laser Position & Pointing Stability

One of the laser’s most useful properties is that while a laser beam propagates it defines a straight line. Many optical systems designed to exploit this property include: range finders, …

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Caution: Lasers Can Seriously Damage Instruments

A common thread running through many Frequently Asked Questions relates to damage of measuring heads.Many applications involve considerable powers and/or energies; since laser measurement …

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Laser Power / Energy Measurement – Know your basics

New wavelengths, higher powers/energies and new applications all the time – No doubt that the laser industry is advancing steadily. That being said, Dr. Ephraim Greenfield, Ophir co-founder, …

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Material Processing: When to Measure Your Laser

Most posts here are about how to measure laser power and beam profile.Today let's discuss when to measure them.First, in material processing the number one factor for how a laser will …

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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 …