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Kristina Kaszei
Product Support Engineer, Edmund Optics
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https://www.edmundoptics.com
Kristina Kaszei
is Product Support Engineer at Edmund Optics (Barrington, NJ).
Optics
Flat-top laser beams: Their uses and benefits
Cory Boone
March 24, 2021
Flat-top beams have many application-dependent advantages over Gaussian beams; learn how best to generate a flat-top beam for your needs.
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![FIGURE 1. Experimental irradiance profiles of a laser beam with a Gaussian beam profile (left) and another beam featuring a flat-top beam profile (right) [1].](https://img.laserfocusworld.com/files/base/ebm/lfw/image/2021/03/2103LFW_kas_1.6047da8f7e53c.png?auto=format,compress&fit=crop&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250 "FIGURE 1. Experimental irradiance profiles of a laser beam with a Gaussian beam profile (left) and another beam featuring a flat-top beam profile (right) [1].")