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Shaping Precision: How Ambient Conditions Sculpt Laser Accuracy
Picture a laser navigating through rain, snow or fog. Imagine trying to do precision work while standing in rain, snow or fog. Each one of these conditions can hinder a laser&...
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How BeamTrack Thermal Sensors Work
The BeamTrack is one a family of Ophir’s line of thermal sensors, which is capable of measuring beam position, size and power all at the same time all at the same time, and ...
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Early Detection Prevents Preventing Sensor Deterioration
They say that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And the same goes for your thermal sensors. Sometimes, you can use your thermal sensors for years without the need ...
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Ophir by MKS
Focus on Clarity: Mastering Precision with Camera-Based Profilers
Camera-based profilers excel in capturing and evaluating beam profiles, including details like beam shape, size, intensity distribution, and divergence. And they are particularly ...
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Harnessing Heat: Pyroelectric Technology
Pyroelectric technology uses is used in cameras and arrays for laser beam diagnostics of nearly all IR and UV laser wavelengths, and and in high temperature thermal imaging. Ophir...
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How Do Pyroelectric Sensors Work?
As we previously discussed, pyroelectric sensors are largely used to measure lasers with repetitive pulse rates repetitively pulsed beams, where we want to catch every pulse. They...
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How to Choose a Beam Profiler
Selecting the right beam profiler is crucial for optimizing laser performance and ensuring accurate measurements. You have lots of choices - CCD and CMOS cameras, scanning slit ...
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Power Sensors: What Are They and What Do They Measure?
Laser power sensors measure the power or energy level of electrical signals laser beams in various applications. There are different types of power sensors, each tailored to ...
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Slice and See: NanoScan 2s Scanning Slit Profiler
A scanning slit profiler scans across a laser beam with a tiny slit, rather taking a picture of the entire beam at once. This process exposes details about the beam's shape, size, ...
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Unveiling the Power of Photodiode Sensors
Photodiode sensors are semiconductor devices that produce a current proportional to light intensity. These sensors have a high degree of linearity over a large range of light power...
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Fiber Focus: Innovation and Laser Measurements for Cutting-Edge Components
Companies from all over the world seek out ALPhANOV in France to develop prototypes of ultra-short pulse laser systems, fiber amplifiers, and other optical components. AlphaNOV is...
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BMW’s Beaming Success: The Role of BeamWatch’s Integrated Systems in Car Battery Production
Battery modules are the beating heart of every electric car. And no one knows this better than the BMW Group, which launched the first fully electric car in 2013. Laser welding in...
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Driving the Future: Lasers Revolutionizing EV Car Batteries
Purchases of electric vehicles are on the rise. Everyone wants to do their part in reducing carbon emissions – and an electric car is one way we can all make a difference. ...
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Shining a Light on Healing: Licthblock GmbH’s Laser Light Therapy
The positive effects of red and infrared light on healing have been studied for a long time. The technical term is “photobiomodulation,” a non-invasive therapeutic ...
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The Korber Case: Where Precision Manufacturing Relies on Customized Laser Power Sensors
Körber Business Area Technologies develops tailor-made systems for the luxury food and tobacco industries. Production lines for these industries are often complex. They ...
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Ophir by MKS
Seeing Clearly: The Vital Role of Lasers in WaveLight’s Ophthalmological Surgical Tools
Millions of people around the world wear glasses to correct their vision and have considered what is commonly known as “laser eye surgery” so that they never have to ...
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Measurement Challenges in Additive Manufacturing
Laser-based additive manufacturing has transformed industrial mass production in many industries. Auto, aerospace, and medical industries - just to name a few. We have long since ...
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Integrating Ophir’s BeamWatch Technology: The Messer Cutting System Case Study
Here at Ophir, we often talk about the importance of measuring beam profile accuracy. And today, we have an opportunity to discuss how one of our customers, Messer Cutting Systems...
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Accuracy is Everything: Precision Measuring of Medical Devices
More precise, effective, and minimally invasive medical procedures are possible today thanks to laser technology. Patient outcomes have improved and recovery times have come down...
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Quality Assurance in Additive Production: The Fraunhofer Case Study
Additive manufacturing technologies have taken on an important role in serial production, manufacturing light-weight but complex mechanical parts quickly and efficiently. Serial ...
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