Shaping Square Top-Hat Laser Beams with DOEs and Verifying with Beam Profiling

Introduction Laser beams typically have a Gaussian intensity profile – bright in the center and dimmer toward the edges. A Top-Hat beam, by contrast, has a flat, uniform intensity across its cross-section with an abrupt drop at the edges [1]. In a square Top-Hat beam, this uniform region is shaped as a neat square. Such […]
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