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Legacy Products
BeamScan for characterizing pulsed and CW light sources
The Photon BeamScan scanning-slit beam profiler is a discontinued legacy product. BeamScan products can still be calibrated and mechanical problems with the scan head can be repaired. Electronic problems with the controllers may be repairable depending on the nature of the failure and the components involved. Controller upgrades and replacement controller PCBs are no longer available.
The standalone (non-computer driven) BeamScan models, 1180 and 1280 are still available for sale. The NanoScan is the next generation of the BeamScan, with many additional features. If you are looking for a scanning-slit profiler, please go to the NanoScan page.
Photon was the first to produce a real time slit-based instrument to measure beam widths. Ease of use and accuracy are primary reasons BeamScan is so widely accepted worldwide. Photon was also the first to use two slits to obtain orthogonal beam widths with one mechanical motion. This method makes the task of measuring the widths of elliptical laser beam faster and easier. The slit is a natural attenuator allowing only a fraction of the laser power onto the detector and produces the profile directly without differentiation and without mathematical filtering.
Scanhead Models:
- XYL, XYSL, XYFIRL for use with 1280 numerical beam meter
- CP, GP for use with 1180 controller
