How to measure QC laser emission?

At Alpes Lasers SA, the following methods are used for detection and qualification of QC laser emission:

Power meter

To measure power, semiconductor power meters are used, in particular the combination of power head 2A-SH with meter AN/2 from OPHIR(www.ophir.com).

Spectrometer

Standard measurements are done with TRIAX320 monochromators from Jobin Yvon (http://www.jobinyvon.com), special (high resolution and CW) measurements with Nicolet 800 and 860 FTIR (www.nicolet.com).

Fast detectors

For time-critical measurements, Alpes Lasers SA recommends detectors from VIGO SYSTEMS (www.vigo.com.pl).

Monitoring

For monitoring laser emission, simple pyroelectric detectors can be used, e.g LGTP101 by MemTek (memtek.lgcit.com).