• Randall Hinton

    Senior Solution Engineer, Edmund Optics

    Randall Hinton is a senior solution engineer at Edmund Optics (Barrington, NJ).

    FIGURE 1. A real laser beam will have a divergence angle (θR) greater than that of an ideal Gaussian beam (θG); the beam’s wavefront is planar in the near field near the beam waist and curved in the far field.
    Randall Hinton
    July 1, 2019
    Approaches for determining laser beam quality differ for different applications; this summary of best practices covers them all.