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Laser equipment

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Half-Power Point

Industrial machinery; Laser equipment

The value on either the leading or trailing edge of a laser pulse at which the power is one-half of its maximum value.

Heat Sink

Industrial machinery; Laser equipment

A substance or device used to dissipate or absorb unwanted heat energy.

Helium-Neon Laser (HeNe)

Industrial machinery; Laser equipment

A laser in which the active medium is a mixture of helium and neon. Its wavelength is usually in the visible range. Used widely for alignment, recording, printing, and measuring.

Hologram

Industrial machinery; Laser equipment

A photographic film or plate containing interference patterns created by the coherence of laser light. A three-dimensional image may be reconstructed from a hologram. There are transmission, ...

The optical reproduction of an object, produced by a lens or mirror. A typical positive lens converges rays to form a "real" image which can be photographed. A negative lens spreads rays to form a ...

Incident Light

Industrial machinery; Laser equipment

A ray of light that falls on the surface of a lens or any other object. The "angle of incidence" is the angle made by the ray with a perpendicular (normal) to the surface.

Infrared Radiation (IR)

Industrial machinery; Laser equipment

Invisible electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths which lie within the range of 0.70 to 1000 micrometers. This region is often broken up into IR-A, IR-B, and IR-C.