And how LPM's actually calculate the CW power.
Obviously with a pulsed configuration you can accurately say "it produces X for X period of time" and thats it..it delivered X energy to the target. Simple.
But with continuous wave it is a cumulative effect...so if I wanted to determine how much energy is imparted into a target with say 2-300mW continuous wave over a period of many seconds ..it would not be accurate to just say "Oh thats 2-300mW of energy". an LPM would tell me the entire time..the target is only be effected by 300mW. But not really..it has the energy the 300mW gave it a fraction of a second ago...and the fraction of a second after that...and after that...and after that...giving the target much more energy than the LPM says the beam is generating
Is there a standard "tick rate" for LPM's that gives you this "consistent" power reading by breaking it up into individual pulses and giving you the average??
Obviously with a pulsed configuration you can accurately say "it produces X for X period of time" and thats it..it delivered X energy to the target. Simple.
But with continuous wave it is a cumulative effect...so if I wanted to determine how much energy is imparted into a target with say 2-300mW continuous wave over a period of many seconds ..it would not be accurate to just say "Oh thats 2-300mW of energy". an LPM would tell me the entire time..the target is only be effected by 300mW. But not really..it has the energy the 300mW gave it a fraction of a second ago...and the fraction of a second after that...and after that...and after that...giving the target much more energy than the LPM says the beam is generating
Is there a standard "tick rate" for LPM's that gives you this "consistent" power reading by breaking it up into individual pulses and giving you the average??
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