App Profile: SCANcalc

The SCANcalc calculation app from SCANLAB helps laser processing professionals easily select scan systems for a wide variety of applications. At the touch of a button, this free app identifies the perfect scan head for a user's specific requirements. For example, the app can calculate a scan system's spot size and accuracy at a definable focal length. SCANcalc also lets you calculate the beam entrance diameter.

To assist your day-to-day laser processing work, SCANcalc also integrates helpful functions, formulas, and the SCANpedia glossary of photonics terminology and definitions – all usable offline.

With more than 35,000 systems produced annually, SCANLAB GmbH is the world-leading and independent OEM manufacturer of scan solutions for deflecting and positioning laser beams in three dimensions. Its exceptionally fast and precise high-performance galvanometer scanners, scan heads and scan systems find application in industrial materials processing and the electronics, food and beverage industries, as well as biotech and medical technology.