Pro-Lite Technology has expanded its range of Coherent Lasercam HR laser beam profilers with high resolution models designed for testing lasers in the ultraviolet and near-infrared bands.
The Lasercam HR UV and Lasercam HR Ingaas join the existing Lasercam HR model to provide measurements of the shape of pulsed and CW laser beams from 190nm to 1.7um.
The Lasercam HR UV is based upon 1.3 million pixel CMOS sensors.
The Lasercam HR Ingaas is based upon an uncooled Ingaas focal plane array detector with 320 x 256 pixels for profiling of IR laser beams in the 900-1700nm wavelength range.
All models in the Lasercam HR family combine the speed of a USB 2.0 computer interface with the power of Coherent's Beamview Analyser PC beam diagnostic software.
A single interface cable that carries both signal and power on the same wire makes camera placement simple.
USB 2.0 connectivity assures compatibility with virtually all new computers, including laptops.
Each Lasercam HR profiler can precisely measure the intensity distribution and beam size of almost any laser beam.
Lasercam HR profilers ship with Coherent's Beamview USB software, which provides real-time cross-sectional as well as 2D and 3D profiles that eases laser system tuning and optimisation.
The beam parameters reported include beam position (centroid and peak location), beam size and shape (diameter and ellipticity), far-field data (divergence, pointing and bore-sighting), mode structure (uniformity and fit to Gaussian) as well as the beam power and power density (or energy and energy density for pulsed lasers).
Statistical parameters reported include the mean, maximum, minimum and standard deviation for the beam parameters and beam wander.
The software accommodates data-logging, supports pass/fail type reporting and can output an alarm for beam parameters that are out of range.
The latest update to Beamview USB software (v4.3.1) includes a flat top beam analysis tool that reports the beam uniformity, plateau uniformity, flatness factor, edge sharpness, effective irradiation area and effective average power density.
Beamview also now ships with an extensive library of Labview Virtual Instruments (VI) which allows direct control of virtually all Beamview functions using National Instruments' Labview software, v7.1 through to v8.2.
Beamview USB can now be automated to run remotely through a Labview development environment by selecting any of the VI libraries.