• 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.
    Lasers & Sources

    Laser Beam Quality: Beam propagation and quality factors: A primer

    Randall Hinton
    July 1, 2019
    Approaches for determining laser beam quality differ for different applications; this summary of best practices covers them all.