Ophir’s 2022 Laser Measurement Catalog is Here!
As every year – Ophir’s new 2022 catalog for laser measurement covers a wide range of laser power and energy sensors, meters and laser beam profiling systems for medical, industrial, defense, and research applications. The first section of the catalog is devoted to laser power meters, which consist of sensors (detectors) and meters (displays). Ophir online tools…
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Ophir’s 2021 Laser Measurement Catalog Is Here!
As every year – Ophir’s new 2021 catalog for laser measurement covers a wide range of laser power and energy sensors, meters and laser beam profiling systems for medical, industrial, defense, and research applications. The first section of the catalog is devoted to laser power meters, which consist of sensors (detectors) and meters (displays). Ophir online tools…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Laser Beam Profiling
Let’s be honest.
We’d all just prefer that our lasers always worked exactly as they’re supposed to.
Who really wants to measure their laser, when they can just be using it instead?
However, like all processes, a laser must be controlled to be used efficiently, and it must be measured to be controlled (and used) properly.
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Ophir’s 2020 Laser Measurement Catalog Is Here!
As every year – Ophir’s new 2020 catalog for laser power measurement covers a wide range of laser power and energy sensors, meters and laser beam profiling systems for medical, industrial, defense, and research applications. The first section of the catalog is devoted to laser power meters, which consist of sensors (detectors) and meters (displays). Ophir online…
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How to Calculate Laser Beam Size
Gaussian laser beams don’t have a simple cut-and-dry beam width.
If you’re not familiar with the math behind a “Gaussian” you might wonder why this would be. Here’s why:
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Factors to Consider When Choosing a Laser Beam Profiling System
What are the four things you need to know when selecting a laser beam profiling system? Learn from Ophir-Spiricon’s sales engineers – the experts in the field of measuring lasers – what you need to know to get the most out of your laser beam.
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Laser Measurement Solutions for High Power Industrial Laser Applications
Modern production facilities must constantly increase throughput, at less cost, with less scrap, and with minimum downtime. In this video overview, you will learn how application of new, advanced technology in measurement devices, can help both designers and users of industrial laser systems to optimize and control their processes, so they can accomplish these goals and achieve consistently good results – both in quality and quantity.
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How to Keep Your Industrial Laser Process Running Smoothly
Lasers are made of matter – of stuff.
And anything made of matter will degrade with time.
So if the laser degradation and eventual failure is inevitable, what can be done?
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How to Find the Perfect Laser Beam Profiler
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…
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How to Profile Large, Small, and High Power Laser Beams
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…
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BeamGage Tutorial: Results Display Configuration
In this video, we demonstrate how to configure BeamGage to display the many possible measurement results of a laser under test
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How to Increase Laser Welding Efficiency and Reduce Scrap
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.
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