SIGMA LBA-708 - Manual (Page 11)

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 General Information
The Spiricon, Laser Beam Analyzer, Models LBA-300/400/500/700/708/710/712/714PC, is a low cost, PC
based product for use in modern Pentium generation personal computers with high performance PCI
bus architecture. It provides all the essential features needed for laser beam analysis. Some of these
features are:
• High-speed high-resolution false color beam intensity profile displays in both 2D and 3D.
• Operates in Windows 2000, XP Professional, or higher operating systems.
• Numerical beam profile analysis employing advanced patented calibration algorithms.
• User selectable choices for making beam width measurement, including Second Moment
methods.
• Pass/fail testing available on most measured parameters.
• Both Whole beam and Linear Gaussian fits to beam data.
• Top Hat measurements based on the beam profile or a user defined area or line.
• Signal-to-noise ratio improvement through averaging and background subtraction.
• Frame summing for cumulative effect analysis.
• Statistical Analysis of all measured parameters.
• Beam Stability analysis.
• Histogram display and results.
• Post processing capabilities.
• Both Drawn and Auto Aperturing for isolating beam data.
• Both Results and Data logging capabilities.
• Flexible printing options for hard copy generation.
• Two Divergence measurement techniques.
1.2 System Requirements
A complete LBA-PC system consists of the following equipment:
1. The Spiricon LBA-PC frame grabber card, with software.
2. A CCD style camera, or a Spiricon Pyrocam III pyroelectric camera.
3. A Pentium style or compatible PC with:
a) High speed PCI bus, one slot available.
b) A Pentium
® or Pentium Pro ® or equivalent processor based motherboard.
c) Graphics accelerator card (support for 1024 x 768 minimum).
d) At least 256 MB of main memory, 512 MB recommended.
e) At least 15 MB of hard disk space available. Much more (>1 GB) if you want to log data files.
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