Photon's FireWire BeamPro camera beam-profiling system features:
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IEEE 1394 (FireWire) connectivity
- Two formats — 1/2" or 2/3"
- High dynamic range
- External and software trigger with asynchronous reset
- Exposure and gain control
- Single-shot, pulsed or continuous wave operation
- Photon FireWire BeamPro acquisition and analysis software with stand-alone GUI and ActiveX automation interface
- Small form factor (49 x 62 x 62 mm)
- Cover glass removed to
eliminate fringes
- High beam profiling accuracy beam diameter
It measures ISO standard beam parameters, including:
- Dslit, Denergy, D4s
- Centroid and peak location
- Major and minor axes
- Ellipticity, eccentricity
- Beam rotation
- Gaussian fit
- Flat-top analysis/uniformity
- Divergence
- Pointing stability
- M2 (K-factor)
The high dynamic range (72 72dBpower) and 12-bit digitization of this array is impressive enough, but profiles with greater than 144dBpower (~24-bit effective digitization) can also be acquired with extended-range imaging. High dynamic range is important in many applications, especially lens characterization, where lens aberrations are apparent from faint features around a strong central peak in the beam profile.
This instrument provides portability for beam profiling, since a peripheral frame grabber card is not required.