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The beam waist (or beam focus) of a laser beam is the location along the propagation direction where the beam radius has a minimum. The waist radius is the beam radius at that location. Figure 1: The beam waist is the location where the beam radius is smallest.
- How do you calculate the diameter of a beam?
- What is the waist of a Gaussian beam?
- How do you calculate laser beam spot?
- What is Gaussian beam profile?
How do you calculate the diameter of a beam?
The beam diameter is generally defined as twice the beam radius – no matter what the particular definition of beam radius is. For Gaussian beams, the FWHM beam diameter is 1.18 times the Gaussian beam radius (1/e2 value).
What is the waist of a Gaussian beam?
Figure 1: The waist of a Gaussian beam is defined as the location where the irradiance is 1/e2 (13.5%) of its maximum value. In the above equations, λ is the wavelength of the laser and θ is a far field approximation.
How do you calculate laser beam spot?
Spot size is nothing but the radius of the beam itself. The irradiance of the beam decreases gradually at the edges. The distance across the center of the beam for which the irradiance (intensity) equals 1/e 2 of the maximum irradiance (1/e 2 = 0.135) is defined as the beam diameter.
What is Gaussian beam profile?
Gaussian beams form the basis of Gaussian beam optics. A Gaussian beam remains Gaussian at every point along its path of propagation through an optical system. This makes it particularly easy to visualize the distribution of a field at any point in the system.
