Beam Profiler Attenuation: How to Avoid Saturation and Damage

In short A camera pixel needs very little light. It saturates at a fluence of tens of nJ/cm². Most lasers deliver thousands to millions of times more, so a beam profiler almost always works behind an attenuator. Saturation does not look dramatic, but it changes the numbers. A peak only twice above full scale makes […]
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