Best Form Lenses Overview

What are Best Forms:

Simple focusing and collimating of laser light can often be accomplished by using a single lens element. However the focused spot size, energy intensity and image quality are all dependent on, not only the focal length, but also the laser beam diameter, the lens radii and the center thickness of the element. Since there are many different lens radii combinations that could be used to achieve a particular focal length, the task becomes one of finding the best combination to minimize or eliminate lens aberrations. A best form lens is a singlet lens which has been optimized to have diffraction limited (< 1/4 wave) wavefront distortion. A Best Form Laser Lens will focus a laser beam of a given diameter to the smallest spot size possible and the spot size is proportional to the input beam diameter and the focal length of the lens.

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