The
above is a beam that has been sliced in the x and y directions. Pictures of this beam has been taken at different spots through
its focus (after a lens of course). The plots below show the
distance from the center of the beam to the spot where the intensity of the
beam is about 16% (1/e^2) of the overall intensity. This spot is called the 1/e^2 spot size.
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program is funded by the National Science Foundation through grant number PHY-1157044. Any
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material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of
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