Beam Shutters are used to actively block the laser beam from further continuation into the beam path - essentially shutting off the laser as desired. These are employed either for safety precautions (safety shutters) or to facilitate the process (process shutters). When in the closed position, the beam is diverted into a water-cooled beam dump with temperature monitoring. Most industrial lasers include an internal shutter. As a result, Laser Mechanisms' Beam Shutters are mainly used as supplemental devices or in the few cases where the laser is not provided with its own shutter. Laser Mechanisms offers a high-power version (up to 6000 watts) and a low-power (up to 200 watts), rail-mounted version that is typically combined with other laser beam conditioning components such as diode pointers or collimators.
