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/laser--measurement/beamprofilers/products/Beam-Profiling Getting Started with BeamGage https://www.ophiropt.com/laser--measurement/knowledge-center/video/7750 BeamGage Tutorials on YouTube https://youtu.be/xdLkIAQ1BeE https://www.youtube.com/user/ophirspiricon/featured 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/laser--measurement/knowledge-center/article/8064 Part 2: Baseline Methods and Mode Effects https://www.ophiropt.com/laser--measurement/knowledge-center/article/8065 Part 3: Beam Aperturing Methods https://www.ophiropt.com/laser--measurement/knowledge-center/article/8066 Part 4: Scanning Slit vs Camera-Based Beam Analyzers https://www.ophiropt.com/laser--measurement/knowledge-center/article/8531 Scanning Slit Profiling https://www.ophiropt.com/laser--measurement/beamprofilers/scanning-slit-based NanoScan 2s Slit Profiler Demonstration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWm4-3fJGP4 M² – Beam Propagation Analysis Products https://www.ophiropt.com/laser--measurement/beamprofilers/products/M2-Beam-Propagation-Analysis BeamSquared for Analysis of Laser Beam Propagation https://www.ophiropt.com/laser--measurement/knowledgecenter/video/11038 https://www.ophiropt.com/laser--measurement/knowledgecenter/video/11040 M² Beam Propagation: Why So Many Different Approaches? https://www.ophiropt.com/laser--measurement/knowledgecenter/article/8075