Plot showing the process of smoothing the BSG laser data. I used an SSA to smooth the data with 20 modes. The smoothed data is the sum of the first three modes. As you can see in the figures below for most of the laser data the first mode is nearly 98% or more of the variablility. I already had code which removed the main peak, reflection peak and secondary peak prior to smoothing. This helps the SSA modes to focus on the noise rather than trying to "fit" the peaks. The main peak and reflection peaks dont really need smoothing anyway. If the main laser peak pixel is 342 or greater then the data on the left side of the and less than 4e-5 are the only mode one (not the sum of three modes). This smooths the lower noisier values better.

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