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Laser Shock Peening (LSP) using Litron Lasers

Laser Peening is a relatively new industrial process that is fast becoming adopted by industry. The reasons for this are mostly down to the process offering much higher fatigue lifetimes than that of traditional mechanical shot peening (up to 10 times increased...

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The New Aurora II Integra OPO from Litron Lasers

An innovative, fully motorised, type II BBO OPO and Nd:YAG pump laser integrated into a single system. Tuning range 400-710nm and 710nm to 2.3µm UV harmonic option for 205-419nm Linewidth <4cm-1   The Aurora II Integra range of type II BBO OPOs has been...

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Comparison of Beam Divergence, Beam Diameter and M2

Why the Aperture – Divergence Product Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story. A true measure of the quality of a laser beam is the parameter known as M2, also referred to as a number of ‘times diffraction limited’. It describes how a beam will diverge compared to a...

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Lasers for Holographic and Interferometric Techniques

Pulsed Nd:YAG lasers running on a single longitudinal mode (SLM) have been around for over twenty years. Their long temporal coherence length of typically 2-3m make them very well suited for applications such as holography and electronic speckle pattern interferometry...

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