This was the case with the old laser...I wish I had taken more photos of the beam....my reason for my observation is based upon my copy of 'Optics",Hecht-Zajac. I will get a couple of the pages posted....please advise me if this information is incorrect.
Originally Posted by
yaddatrance
The beam profile is not TEM anything, it looks just like the optics is just misaligned. Maybe it jarred loose during shipping? I bet you see some combination of pbs/offset heads inside.
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