Abstract
For laser users, the usual Gaussian beam (GB) may not always be the best intensity profile. Often, a preferred option is a Flat-Top (FT) beam which is generally obtained by using diffractive optics in a reshaping operation. In this case, the resulting FT profile occurs only in the focal plane of the focusing lens, and its vicinity. We consider here the generation of a shape-invariant FT laser beam resulting from the incoherent weighted (50%-50% in power) mixing of LG00 (GB) and LG01 (doughnut) beams. For that we consider the insertion inside the laser cavity of a diaphragm and an absorbing ring, and optimising their sizes makes possible the simultaneous oscillation on LG00 and LG01 modes allowing the generation of a shape-invariant laser beam.
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