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Video: How To Set Up Your DataRay Beam Profiler
DataRay Software |April 22, 2025
The DataRay beam profiling software provides powerful state-of-the-art features to characterize your beams quickly and efficiently. Our team has developed a series of short videos to help explain and demonstrate key software functionality. The first video in this series serves as an introduction to the DataRay beam profiling camera software...
Pulsed Lasers: Pulse Energy & Imager Gain
Pulsed Lasers |January 10, 2017
This is the third entry in a series of blog posts that explore DataRay’s pulsed laser measurement capabilities. This blog post will talk about the energy requirements involved with measuring pulsed lasers, and how the received signal can be controlled when the exposure time is fixed.
Pulsed Lasers and External Trigger Mode
Pulsed Lasers |December 2, 2016
This is the second entry in a series of blog posts that explore DataRay’s pulsed laser measurement capabilities. This blog post will now talk about how an external trigger can be used to formally synchronize the exposure time to the pulse width. This External Trigger mode provides more versatile and precise measurements of pulsed lasers.
Pulsed Lasers and Auto-Trigger Mode
Pulsed Lasers |November 21, 2016
This is the first entry in a series of blog posts that explore DataRay’s pulsed laser measurement capabilities. This blog post will review how capturing pulsed lasers with a camera beam profiler differs from capturing CW lasers, and how the additional challenges with pulsed lasers are handled to provide useful measurements with the software’s Auto-Trigger mode.
When to Use the D86 Beam Width Measurement Method
Beam Profiling Concepts |September 15, 2016
Although the clip level method and the second moment method are the most popular methods of beam width measurement, other beam width measurement techniques such as the D86 method can be used with beam profiling cameras.
Scanning Slits vs. Cameras
Beam Profiling Concepts |August 4, 2016
Our customers often ask us what type of beam profiler they should use to measure their laser beam(s). In this blog post, we explain the relative advantages and disadvantages of a scanning slit profiler and a camera-based profiler.