If you use Photodiode-based sensors to measure your beam power, there are a number of issues that can affect the accuracy of your measurements– and with some of these, you won’t even know there’s a problem … In this webinar, you will learn about: Some strange anomalies when measuring low-power pulsed beams (such as beams…
Read all about Ophir’s new sensor that measures high-power ultrashort-pulse lasers and is ideal for use in micromachining and material microprocessing applications in the semiconductor, display, and medical industries. Ophir’s absorbers – cover the wavelengths stretching from UV to the long-wavelength IR regions Ophir offers several unique absorbers for its wide variety of power sensors,…
When using power sensors and meters to measure laser power, the million dollar question is: How accurate are the results? To help answer this question, let’s examine everything that goes into an Ophir power sensor accuracy specification (as well as related specs, like linearity). The single biggest factor that will determine the sensor accuracy is…
If all your 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 are full-fledged Laser Power and Energy measurement devices, but instead of having a separate on-board display, the StarLab PC software application becomes your…
StarLab is Ophir’s easy-to-use, yet powerful, laser measurement software that turns a PC into a multi-channel laser power / energy display station. Introduction to Functions StarLab offers a range of options to view, analyze, and plot your laser measurements. One set of user configurable options in StarLab is called Functions, and these allow you to…
When we have a laser with certain characteristics and we want to know which Ophir Power/Energy sensors are suitable, we either look at the catalog specification of some likely sensor to see if it is suitable, or we put our laser characteristics into the Ophir Sensor Finder and it gives a list of suitable sensors.…
Telecom applications can employ lasers over a very wide range of powers–which requires sensors suitable for anywhere from 10 picowatts to 300 milliwatts. Read about Ophir’s Optical Power Measurement Solutions for Telecom Applications
The answer to this is, of course, it depends. It depends on the pulse frequency and it depends on which sensor you want to use. Thermopile detectors do not have very fast response times, so frequencies above 100Hz are effectively the same as CW to them and all BeamTrack functions will perform as expected. Below…
Efforts continues to develop and employ directed-energy weapons–with laser-based weapons being the easiest alternative. Read all about Directed-Energy Laser Devices-Advantages and Challenges
Many experts believe LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) is one of the pivotal sensing technologies required to make partial to full autonomous vehicles possible. The most promising way seems to be combining LiDAR with other detection/ranging systems – such as cameras and radar products – into a suite of detection & ranging systems, allowing autonomous…
Picking out the appropriate meter (display, instrument) best for your needs has always been quite a challenging issue. We’d like to help you get to know a few of the main criteria to consider when choosing a meter, in the following video: : Contact us