Webinar Introduction to Laser Beam Profiling
Learn the basics of Laser Beam Profiling:
00:00 Introduction
00:20 Camera Based Beam Profilers
00:38 Why should you measure your laser?
06:14 What is a camera pixel?
07:09 More about CCD and CMOS camera sensors
08:23 Why does Ophir use many different cameras?
10:34 What is a Spatial Intensity Profile?
11:57 Laser Measurement Results
15:41 Best Practices: Camera Baseline Correction with Spiricon’s Ultracal™
18:35 Best Practices: Using software apertures to reduce measurement uncertainty
20:39 BeamMaker® an integrated beam modeling tool
21:21 Laser attenuation with camera based profilers
22:37 Best Practices: Adjusting optical attenuation to maximize SNR
24:06 Integrating calibrated laser power measurement
24:35 BeamGage Automation SDK
28:53 Scanning Slit Beam Profilers
30:21 Inside a NanoScan scan head
32:00 Benefits of a scanning slit profiler
32:45 Differences between camera data and scanning slit data
34:44 Best Practices: Aligning the scan head to the laser
35:51 NanoScan v2 beam profiling software
37:02 Spatial Intensity Profiles vs. Summed Energy Profiles
37:29 Laser Measurement Results
38:11 Laser attenuation with scanning slit profilers
39:22 NanoScan Automation SDK
43:52 Beam Propagation (M²) Measurement
45:48 What is an M² measurement?
47:27 Manual methods for measuring beam quality
48:02 Automated M² measurement with the Ophir BeamSquared system
51:27 Tools in the BeamSquared software
53:41 Beam Propagation results
55:09 Best Practices: Selecting the best measurement locations
56:38 Best Practices: Axial beam alignment
58:25 High Power, non-contact M² measurement with the Ophir BeamWatch system
Helpful Links:
Camera Beam Profiling
https://www.ophiropt.com/en/c/beamgag...
Getting Started with BeamGage
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BeamGage Tutorials on YouTube
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Deep Dive into Camera Beam Profiling
Apples to Apples: Which Camera Technologies Work Best for Beam Profiling Applications
By G.E. Slobodzian, Director of Engineering, Retired, Ophir-Spiricon
Part 1: Which Camera Technologies Work Best for Beam Profiling
https://www.ophiropt.com/en/a/camera-...
Part 2: Baseline Methods and Mode Effects
https://www.ophiropt.com/en/a/camera-...
Part 3: Beam Aperturing Methods
https://www.ophiropt.com/en/a/camera-...
Part 4: Scanning Slit vs Camera-Based Beam Analyzers
https://www.ophiropt.com/en/a/scannin...
Scanning Slit Profiling
https://www.ophiropt.com/en/c/nanosca...
NanoScan 2s Slit Profiler Demonstration
• NanoScan 2s Slit Profiler Demonstration
M² – Beam Propagation Analysis Products
https://www.ophiropt.com/en/c/beamsqu...
BeamSquared for Analysis of Laser Beam Propagation
• M2 BeamSquared for Analysis of Laser Beam ...
M² Beam Propagation: Why So Many Different Approaches?
https://www.ophiropt.com/laser--measu...