Having an Issue with cutting acting like 2 beams

Having an issue that I don’t know what the fix is. Pictures of the issue but it acts as if I have a cracked lens but it appears fine. Its marking 2 lines for a circle pattern. and Has 2 dots when I do a pulse. I have checked the Laser alignment appears to be OK, I think that it is in the Head.

Those would definitely help. Absent that, some guesses are the best we can do.

The beam may be hitting the side of the nozzle due to bad alignment from Mirror 3.

Put a piece of tape over the nozzle and fire a manual pulse. The hole in the tape should be dead center in the middle of the nozzle opening.

Perhaps the tube is not resonating in TEM00 mode, as in a similar problem:

That discussion took a while to eliminate the other possibilities, but the beam tests along the way will show you how to figure out if your laser has the same problem.


After working on it some more I removed all the screws from Mirror 3 and started from scratch. After making several adjustments to that mirror it resolved the issue. Thank you for your help.

Sometimes that’s exactly what it takes: do it one more time!

Welcome aboard … :grin: