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Obtaining the beam waist from Gaussian optics in Zemax

    • shawn.storm
      Subscriber

      Hi all, I just want to obtain the beam waist after a blackbox objective but I'm having some troubles. Essentially I am using Physical Optics Propagation and I am not getting consistent information on the beam waist. Here are some screenshots of my setup:

      Lens data and aperture: https://imgur.com/a/vxQCFXy

       

      Layout: https://imgur.com/a/ybXimTl

       

      POP1: https://imgur.com/a/2xM5ryc

       

      POP2: https://imgur.com/a/xehvmdj

       

      POP3: https://imgur.com/a/c0bTHI4

       

      I would like to essentially changing the gaussian beam width, and know how the beam waist at the image plane changes. But, I am not getting consistent data. Is there something blatantly incorrect that I'm doing? I see that the X-and Y- sampling really changes the shape of the Gaussian beam, which I find odd as well.

      Any insight is greatly appreciated!

    • Niki Papachristou
      Ansys Employee

      Hi Shawn,

      Thank you for reaching out to us! I am affraid your screenshots are not actual images but links. Can you please try and repost them as images?

      Kind Regards,

      Niki

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