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With decades of experience, having designed and delivered thousands of infrared lenses for multiple defense applications, Ophir has earned its reputation as a world-leading, one-stop-shop …

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Multiple Beam Analysis with the NanoScan

The NanoScan software allows the characterization of up to 16 simultaneous beams entering the aperture, allowing the user to examine and evaluate various standard beam parameters displayed …

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BeamGage Professional Partitions with Multiple Beams on One Display

The Partition feature, available in BeamGage Professional, allows subdividing the camera imager into separate regions, called partitions, and which can then compute separate beam results …

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Integrating power measurements into your software application with the Ophir COM object.

Ophir’s renowned StarLab softwareis an easy-to-use, yet powerful, laser measurement application which turns a PCinto a laser power/energy multi-channel analysis workstation. However, …

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Don’t need a standalone meter? PC interfaces with the StarLab PC software

If allyour laser measurement work involves a laptop or a PC, and you don’t need a standalone laser power meter, one of Ophir’s PC interfaces could be an ideal solution. These arefull-fledged …

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Measure 120 kW Directly with Ophir’s Newest Laser Power Sensor

Update (January 2015): This power sensor has been improved to measure up to 120 kW of continuous laser power. Read on to find out why we developed this sensor and how it works.In the …

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IR Optical Components for the Defense Industry

With decades of knowledge and experience, having designed and delivered thousands of infrared components for multiple defense applications, Ophir has earned its reputation as a world-leading, …

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Multiple Instances of BeamGage

BeamGage does have the ability to run multiple instances while connected to the same camera source, which can add benefits such as simultaneous mutually exclusive results. For instance, …

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BeamGage Multiple Processes and Local Port Communication

BeamGage is a multiple process application with three process types which run when BeamGage is operating: Spiricon.ConsoleService.exe, Spiricon.DataServer.exe, and Spiricon.Version5.exe. …

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University Research Team Faces Challenges of Measuring Multiple Lasers

The scientific community is often faced with the requirement of testing, validating, or merely qualifying several laser sources planned for a particular project.

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Fighting Viruses with UV-C LED Light

Disinfection with UV light could offer a way of disinfecting larger areas without the use of chemical disinfectants, especially in hospitals where patients are being treated.

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Measuring Signals Below the Noise Floor with a Lock-In Amplifier

Measuring optical signals in the femtowatt (10-15) to nanowatt (10-9) range can be a daunting task. Signal levels this low are lost in typical detector noise levels and swamped by background …

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Measuring Average Power of Pulsed Lasers with Photodiodes

When measuring average power using a photodiode detector such as PD300 or IS6-D-VIS, the maximum power or saturation power is determined by the maximal photocurrent that the photodiode …

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SLM Troubleshooting Made Easy with BeamWatch® AM

When we developed BeamWatch AM, we not only drew diagrams and thought about great features, we also talked to experienced manufacturers of selective laser melting (SLM) machines about …

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Calibration of L50(300)A-IPL Sensor for use with Gel Coupled IPL Sources

We are interested in displaying the energy emitted by the IPL source assuming gel coupling to the patient and no back reflection from the patient's skin. This means we are displaying …

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Measuring Pulsed Lasers with NanoScan 2s

The NanoScan 2s is the newest scanning slit, sensor-based, beam profiling system from Ophir-Spiricon LLC. It can profile pulsed laser beams with repetition rates in the 10 kHz range …

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BeamGage Profiling with .Net Automation Interface and LabVIEW®

BeamGage Professional and BeamGage Enterprise version 5.7 are supported with Automation via .Net components. Both include a LabVIEW example that can be run with the LabVIEW Run-Time …

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Selecting the Correct Lens for M² Measurements with NanoModeScan

With the broad range of wavelengths that can be measured with this instrument, the first consideration is the material and anti-reflective coating of the lens. There are a number of …

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How to Profile Pulsed Lasers with a Scanning Slit

Scanning slit profilers boast several advantageous qualitites, such as the ability to measure high powers without attenuation, relatively inexpensive infrared compatibility, and mo …

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Making High Power Measurements with Little to No Attenuation

High power is a fairly indistinct term that means different things in different contexts. High power laser beams are handled by using reflective materials, and the level of reflectivity …