laserbeamsize 1.2.0

ISO 11146 Calculation of Laser Beam Center and Diameter

Simple and fast calculation of beam sizes from a single monochrome image based on the ISO 11146 method of variances. Some effort has been made to make the algorithm less sensitive to background offset and noise.

Installation

Just use pip:

pip install laserbeamsize

Usage

Finding the center and dimensions of a good beam image:

import imageio
import numpy as np
import laserbeamsize as lbs

beam = imageio.imread("t-hene.pgm")
x, y, dx, dy, phi = lbs.beam_size(beam)

print("The center of the beam ellipse is at (%.0f, %.0f)" % (x,y))
print("The ellipse diameter (closest to horizontal) is %.0f pixels" % dx)
print("The ellipse diameter (closest to   vertical) is %.0f pixels" % dy)
print("The ellipse is rotated %.0f° ccw from the horizontal" % (phi*180/3.1416))

ellipticity = dy/dx
if ellipticity>0.87:
    print()
    print("The beam is circular because the ellipticity=%.2f > 0.87")
    print("The circular beam diameter is %.0f pixels" % np.sqrt((dx**2+dy**2)/2))

Alternatively, one can get a quick visual report:

lbs.visual_report(beam)
plt.show()

Which will show something like

Documentation about backgrounds, integrations, and other issues are explained at <https://laserbeamsize.readthedocs.io>

License

laserbeamsize is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.