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 it stands to reason that we’ll need several different profilers to cover the range of lasers. There are cameras and scanning slit…
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 laser. At risk of overcomplicating matters, we like to provide our customers with maximum flexibility. So you…
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 be focused, but you never know what it actually is, or where it’s really focused. Contact us
We are proud to announce that Klaus Hansen is the winner of our Facebook beam profiling image contest. He entered the picture below – “advanced beam shaping for laser cutting and welding.” Want to know how and why he profiles his laser systems? Want to find out the trick he uses to make laser…
Ultraviolet excimer lasers are important for many applications: primarily medical and photolithography, but not exclusively. Measuring them, however, is not always so simple. We recently encountered a company that needed to know how evenly their excimer laser beam was distributed in space. They tried imaging their beam with specialized ultraviolet cameras, but all they got…
Why is Ophir-Spiricon’s calibration lead-time the fastest in the industry? Learn about our lean journey and hear our announcement on how we will become even better this year. Contact us
Why should you measure your laser’s beam profile? This tutorial is presented by Ophir-Spiricon sales engineers – the experts in the field of measuring lasers and in helping you get the most out of your laser beam. Contact us
A laser beam profiler is more or less a specialized camera rigged to measure beam width, divergence, and other qualities of the laser’s spatial intensity distribution. So, like any camera, it has a trigger which takes a given amount of time to open the shutter. Let’s say for argument’s sake that it take only 10μs…
So, you want to measure your laser… What comes to mind first? A laser power meter? Okay… Let’s say I’m using a laser to cut sheets of metal and I have a power meter to check that it is outputting the correct power. But even if I know that my laser produces 50W with 99.9%…