Month: April 2016

StarBright: Advanced, Yet Easy-to-Use Laser Power Meter

In order to measure your laser, you need two things:

Thing One: A sensor, to convert photonic power into an electrical signal.

Thing Two: A meter, to measure the electrical signal, digitize it, and display the results.

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Measure Laser Power on Your Android Phone

Some people prefer to use a PC to display their laser measurements. Some use a power meter.

But if you are a service technician and find yourself lugging equipment from one site to the next, this might be your saving grace.

Ophir recently released an Android app called StarViewer.

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Optical Alignment: A Simple Solution to an Infuriating Problem

Picture this:

You’re working on a complicated laser setup, with various beam splitters, attenuation, lenses and mirrors. You spend weeks optimizing the design, and months waiting for all the parts to arrive.

Now everything is here and you set it up to the millimeter.

And then the big moment. Where’s the laser?

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Measuring Pulsed Lasers with a Scanning-Slit Profiler

When it comes to profiling your laser beam, there are quite a few questions to consider.  Accuracy, functions, cost, etc. But the most basic question is will this profiler work with my laser.  For pulsed beams, you could always use a CCD camera profiler.  However, there are many cases where a scanning-slit would be the…

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