Laser Beam Analysis

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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 …

Technical Article

Consistent Measuring Technology Ensures the Quality of Medical Lasers

Case Study: During production and, above all, during the final inspection of the laser systems, the measured parameters are continually compared against the specifications.

Technical Article

How to Easily Speed Up End-of-line Quality Testing for Lasers

To ensure the high quality of each laser system, thorough end-of-line testing is mandatory before a laser system is delivered.

Technical Article

Beam Attenuation: Key to Successful Beam Profiling

Beam attenuation is critical because lasers designed for cutting sheet steel will have no trouble cutting through a beam profiler if the beam power isn't attenuated.

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Laser Measurement Systems: Best Practices

When purchasing a highly advanced laser for use in the workplace, such as a laser, learning how to properly apply, troubleshoot, and evaluate that device becomes very important.

Application Notes

BeamWatch Optimizes Laser Process Development

The development of this multi-focal laser welding process was significantly accelerated by the compact Ophir BeamWatch measuring device from MKS, which measures laser beams in real …

Technical Article

Keeping Your Additive Manufacturing Laser in Spec

Among hundreds of variables that are associated with an Additive Manufacturing process are the many variables associated with the laser that is used within the system. These lasers …

Technical Article

Never work outside the specification … never?

Ensuring beam quality in automated industrial laser materials processing poses many challenges for measurement technology. MKS addressed these challenges by developing Ophir BeamWatch …

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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 …

Technical Article

Beam Profiling in the SWIR Range: What You Need to Know

When applications call for beam diagnostics in the SWIR spectral range, specifically the 1.5 μm region, there are two practical options available: a phosphor-coated CCD camera or an …

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How to Make Laser Welding and Cutting Affordable and Sustainable

Automated measurement of important parameters in the production context improve quality and ensure transparent processes; this also applies to laser welding and cutting.

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What to Expect in a Laser Profiling Demonstration

You may be wondering what to expect when you ask us for a laser beam profiling demo. Here's how it works.

Technical Note

“What’s This” function in BeamGage 6.8

Problem: The “What’s This” feature only opens to the first page of the manual in Adobe Ready XI. Solution: Open your Adobe Reader XI

Technical Note

Using the built in photodiode trigger on the SP620U and SP503U cameras

With the introduction of BeamGage the capability of using the built in photodiode trigger in the SP camera series is now available.

Technical Note

5 Situations Where Laser Performance Measurement is Necessary

Measuring the performance of a laser has possible for a number of years and is accomplished with a variety of techniques. These electronic laser measurement solutions give the laser …

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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 …

Technical Article

Overcoming Barriers to Industrial Laser Performance Measurement

During the development of these laser systems and installation in the applications in which they will be put into service, performance measurements of the components and the system …

Technical Note

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 …

Technical Note

Outputting Data from Photon Instruments

We are frequently asked how one can output data from the NanoScan to other programs for additional analysis or publication. Depending nature of the desired end results there can be …

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