electromagnetism - Propagation of a flat-top laser beam in free
![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/i8kEN.png)
I have spent some time looking at how to design a field mapping system that turns a Gaussian beam profile into a top-hat beam. However, it would also be very useful to have a very sharp super-Gauss
![](https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/dba73ae4b36752f2163a0a082b2ce2ca38f07b33/3-Figure2-1.png)
Figure 3 from Current Technology of Laser Beam Profile
![](https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/698343/fphy-09-698343-HTML/image_m/fphy-09-698343-g014.jpg)
Frontiers Non-Diffracting Light Wave: Fundamentals and
![](https://www.edmundoptics.eu/media/2qpjjdwo/laser-beam-shaping-overview-fig-2.png?rmode=max)
Laser Beam Shaping Overview
![](https://cdn.comsol.com/wordpress/2015/06/Laser-beam-focused-in-cylindrical-material-domain.png)
Modeling Laser-Material Interactions in COMSOL Multiphysics
![](https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-319-99895-4_11/MediaObjects/73261_1_En_11_Fig7_HTML.png)
Laser Beam Propagation in Free Space
![](https://cdn.comsol.com/product-new/wave-optics-module/full/wave-optics-module-hero.png)
Wave Optics Software for Analyzing Micro- and Nano-Optical Devices
![](https://physics.aps.org/assets/7cf931a5-e7e4-4f06-b0b1-a28578aa4692/e69_1.png)
Physics - Airy plasmons defeat diffraction on the surface
![](https://media.springernature.com/m685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1007%2Fs00340-022-07777-z/MediaObjects/340_2022_7777_Fig7_HTML.png)
Coherent terahertz radiation generation by a flattened Gaussian
![](https://www.rp-photonics.com/previews/gaussian_beams.png)
Gaussian beams, explained by RP; laser beam, fundamental
![](https://pub.mdpi-res.com/photonics/photonics-08-00005/article_deploy/html/images/photonics-08-00005-ag.png?1609245739)
Photonics, Free Full-Text
![](https://pub.mdpi-res.com/mathematics/mathematics-11-04130/article_deploy/html/images/mathematics-11-04130-g001.png?1696406476)
Mathematics, Free Full-Text
![](https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-319-99895-4_11/MediaObjects/73261_1_En_11_Fig11_HTML.png)
Laser Beam Propagation in Free Space
![](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364619997/figure/fig5/AS:11431281091376257@1666408465006/An-illustration-of-the-experimental-setup-of-a-vector-holographic-optical-tweezer-The.png)
An illustration of the experimental setup of a vector holographic
![](https://www.mdpi.com/photonics/photonics-08-00092/article_deploy/html/images/photonics-08-00092-g001.png)
Photonics, Free Full-Text
![](https://pub.mdpi-res.com/micromachines/micromachines-05-00943/article_deploy/html/images/micromachines-05-00943-g001-1024.png?1414414881)
Micromachines, Free Full-Text