Abstract
The location of focal planes and waists can be calculated using the equivalent Gaussian beam method. Predictions can be made for both Gaussian and top-hat (flat phase, flat irradiance profile) beams. A Fresnel number relationship is given where the waist of top-hat beams can be either within or outside the far field region. Experimental implications of this focal plane shift for top-hat and gaussian beams are discussed. The most important implication is that calculated reference power-in-the-bucket curves, used to calculate beam quality, may be off as much as 5% for top-hat beams, when not taking into account focal shifts for some optical systems.© (1992) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
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