Automation Comes to Beam Profiling
Jan 1, 2002 — The beam focusability factor, or M2, which is one of the most widely accepted values for establishing laser beam quality, involves a difficult and time-consuming process to quantify a single beam profile. However, if you're a manufacturer of Nd:YAG lasers, you can ill afford to deliver a system that has not been properly calibrated. Precision drilling, welding, micromachining and metrology applications demand narrow, well-characterized beams. This means interrupting the production process to...