Choose a Raman edge filter when you only need Stokes signal and you want to measure as close to the laser line as physically possible. Choose a notch filter when you need Stokes and anti-Stokes in the same acquisition, or when your excitation wavelength moves…
Choosing a bandpass vs longpass filter for machine vision is fundamentally a question of which wavelengths the camera should receive—and which wavelengths must be rejected. A bandpass filter transmits a defined spectral interval while attenuating wavelengths on both sides. A longpass filter blocks shorter wavelengths…
In an f-theta scanning system, spot size and input beam diameter are inversely related: double the collimated beam diameter at the lens, and the focused spot diameter halves. That single relationship is the reason a beam expander sits between almost every laser and every galvanometer…
