Open AccessA Beginner's Guide to Industrial Laser Beam Profiling
Author(s) -
McCauley John
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
laser technik journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1863-9119
pISSN - 1613-7728
DOI - 10.1002/latj.201090045
Subject(s) - profiling (computer programming) , laser , laser beam quality , laser beams , computer science , worry , optics , psychology , physics , anxiety , psychiatry , operating system
Whether you're new to lasers or you've been working with them for some time, you may be wondering what all the fuss is over laser beam profiling. Why worry about the quality of the laser beam that you've just put into production? Or, if you think your process is humming along nicely, why fix what isn't broken? You might think that laser beam quality has more than likely been addressed at the research and development stage of the laser you have, or even at the manufacturing or integration stages of the system that you've received. This article shows the importance of laser beam profiling and how the user can benefit from it.