With newly introduced support of USB 2.0 and FireWire interface our software became the most flexible laser beam analyzing solution. You can get any CCD / CMOS camera of your choose and easily combine it with our software for getting most from your laser profile information.
Fig.1. 3D representation of the Laser Beam profile of He-Ne laser
MS Macrosystem was the first company on the market that introduced real time photorealistic 3D Surface View for laser beam profiling and analyzing. Since then the most realistic representation of the laser beam profiles has helped hundreds of scientists and engineers to optimize laser operation in real time. Among many the other advantages of the 3D visualization the important is the possibility to analyze fine structure of the beam. In Fig.1 we show how easy is to notice the line of lower sensitivity, resulted from incorrect calibration of the CCD imager.
Fig.2. 3D surface representation of YAG laser pulse.
Topographic coloring of the laser beam map using Look-Up-Tables (LUT) is a common way of beam topography and visualization in 2D domain. Our 3D surface gives you additional options of realistic shadowing of the beam profile surface. 3D Surface mapping with color and shadows provides much more information about the beam shape from the single glance.
Real-time
rendering
3d mapping of the surfaces is not a new technique. The difference is obvious
when it comes to real live operation conditions. The fact is that still
(or slow) 3D images are not useful as much as 3D rendered in real-time
at 15+ frames per second (FPS) or better. When you have real time rendering
you can adjust light and surface angles such as too see the best any feature
of interest of your surface. Or in other words to observe tiny details
of the laser beam profile.
Why 4D
Laser beam is changing in time some times quite rapidly. One need
to be able to make laser beam shape observation in real time that is already
4 Dimensional task. The advanced acceleration features we implement in
our software will allow you to see laser beam in real time as it changes.
Again we believe that our software is unique in this respect.
Our Optimized algorithm provides
real-time (up to 60 FPS) zooming, scaling, rotation, animation while preserving
the measured quality of the 3D beam surface.
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Fig.3. Topographic 3D surface representation for Diode laser output beam. The surface fine structure (texture) is revealed with correct light angle adjustment.
Advanced Lighting. Why important?
Incidence light direction is something that helps observer to see fine structure of the surface. Again light adjustment in 3D space must be life time to get maximum benefit from this feature.
Beam fine structure is better visualized at certain angle of incidence (see example left). To find best angle one should be able to move light and render surfaces at least 30 FPS
Contour lines give better perception of the beam structure.
-3D Contour over the 3D surface given additional perception of the shape. 3D contour when used together with coloring and shadowing provides you maximum visual enhancement of the laser beam data.
Statistics
Common laser beam parameters:
Centroid, Laser Power, ISO knife, ISO slit, ellipse parameters, Gaussian true least square fit to intersection beam profiles, etc. Parameters can be averaging over several measured frames and plotted in real-time.
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Fig.4. X,Y laser beam profiles measured with interactive 3d planes.
Cut
View Tool. Intersection plots.
Laser Beam Profiling is achieved within 3D visualization screen using
semitransparent cut planes (orthogonal slicers). The planes provide you
with interactive means of plotting the laser beam profiles into Cut View
drawing tool.
Cut View
Tool is designed for fast surface profile inspection. It shows intersection
in real-time making easy to analyze beam surface detail.
Profile data arrays can be saved as ASCII coma separated values (CSV)
file.
Fig. 5. Data Table tool for data editing and manipulation
- View and edit laser beam intensity data
- Copy/paste data with system clipboard
- Edit and redraw new data into 3D window
- Multiple data tables support
- Basic math operations
- Save data table as ASCII file
- Data exchange with spreadsheet application (Excel, Lotus, etc.)
-Full integration with digital CCD/CMOS cameras from our technology partners Recommended CCD / CMOS cameras>
-Developer API for communication and data exchange with user software
-Scripting for data exchange via network
-Output of 3D images, file save, file sequence save (movie)
-Input and Output of common image formats JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, TGA, WPG, etc.
-Use system Clipboard to copy and paste images and data tables
-Custom formats, custom camera integration
We provide user with highly intuitive and interactive user interface in both 3D and 2D visualization modes of laser beam analysis. Most of the concepts are originated from our cooperation with leading institutions and companies and are proven to be very useful for fast, easy, yet robust and accurate beam measurements.
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