Measurement of Gaussian laser beam radius using the knife-edge technique: Improvement on data analysis

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 393-396

  De Araújo, Marcos A C ^a   Silva, Rubens ^a,b   De Lima, Emerson ^a   Pereira, Daniel P ^a,c   De Oliveira, Paulo C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^c Campus Marabá Industrial   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS;

APPROXIMATED FUNCTIONS; FITTING FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN LASER BEAM; INVERSION ALGORITHM; KNIFE-EDGE TECHNIQUES;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 60849090490     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000393     Document Type: Article

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