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Simple to construct, fits most laser pointers with simple shimming. In comparison with zoom beam expanders that use combinations of. Infinitely adjustable beam expanders deliver the high level of precision. We use either an air spaced two lens system or an achromat in order to minimize chromatic and spherical aberrations and. Unfollow beam expander to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. However, since for prisms of the same material zero dispersion is obtained at a unique wavelength, it is suggested that the adjective quasiachromatic is more appropriate to describe these laser beam expanders. Beam expanders are optical devices that take a collimated beam of light and expand its size in laser physics they are used either as intracavity or extracavity.
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In the days of purely spherical mirrors, this had been accomplished by selecting. Pdf in this article, an approach for the design and construction of a refractive 2. Download free adobe pdf reader and solidworks viewer on the left. There are many ready made beam expanders available on the market, but often they are not available in the required expansion ratio or spectral range. Kugler kst a series of beam expanders featuring direct watercooled copper mirrors for highest laser powers. Pdf spectrally narrow pulsed dye laser without beam expander. Variable beam expander manually adjustable or motorized for different wavelengths. Beam expanders are optical systems for increasing or decreasing the diameter of a laser beam. Yag lasers fundamental and its harmonics wavelength. Beam expanders zoom and compact beam expanders eksma. Analytic design of a zoom xybeam expander with freeform optical surfaces. Our laser beam expanders provide a fixed expansion factor.
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