USB communications added to laser power/energy meter

StarLite displays a variety of beam measurements, including power, single shot energy, energy and frequency of high repetition rate lasers, and beam position and size, on a 320x240px TFT display with 16mm digits. It monitors power from pW to kW or energy from pJ to hundreds of Joules for all Ophir thermopile, pyroelectric, and photodiode sensors. The meter monitors laser beam size and accurately track beam position to fractions of a mm when used with Ophir's BeamTrack thermal detectors.

StarLite is supplied with StarLab 3.0, a laser measurement software that converts a PC into a multi-channel laser power/energy station. It graphically displays power meter data as line plot, histogram, bar chart or simulated analogue needle and provides icons and graphics that guide the user through the application, screen capture and print, reverse highlighting of the numeric display. Laser beam measurements can be integrated into sophisticated programming environments (such as Microsoft's Visual Basic, LabVIEW and MatLab) via a COM object. StarLab 3.0 runs on Microsoft Windows XP, Vista (32-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) and Windows 8 platforms.

The StarLite power/energy meter has a 'Smart Connector' interface which automatically configures and calibrates the display when plugged into one of the company's measurement sensors.

StarLite with USB communications is available now. StarLab 3.0 is included free of charge.