Hi everyone! First post. Hope to contribute in the future, but first I hope someone has some previous experience building a beam profiler.
I'm thinking of creating a beam profiler using only off the shelf parts.
First, I'd obtain a CCD camera and taking off any filters they have on it. I would then put on enough ND filters to attenuate the laser so the CCD camera isn't saturated. The laser will be mounted to a test fixture 200mm out where I'd be making my profile measurements.
I don't know if I'd need a frame grabber or not, but I'd probably grab one from Matrox if need be.
I figure that, I can extract RGB intensity values from pictures I take from the CCD camera and imported those values into Matlab to create contour graphs of the beam.
What do you think? Thanks in advance.
I'm thinking of creating a beam profiler using only off the shelf parts.
First, I'd obtain a CCD camera and taking off any filters they have on it. I would then put on enough ND filters to attenuate the laser so the CCD camera isn't saturated. The laser will be mounted to a test fixture 200mm out where I'd be making my profile measurements.
I don't know if I'd need a frame grabber or not, but I'd probably grab one from Matrox if need be.
I figure that, I can extract RGB intensity values from pictures I take from the CCD camera and imported those values into Matlab to create contour graphs of the beam.
What do you think? Thanks in advance.