The Refractive Beam Shaper converts a Gaussian laser beam into a collimated flat top beam with nearly 100% efficiency. This exciting capability, enabled by Newport’s high precision aspheric optics, results in simple-to-use, rugged, and efficient beam shaping that can be readily integrated into your material processing, non-linear optics, optical data storage, cell sorting or other applications.

The Refractive Beam Shaper produces a collimated flat top beam by point-to-point mapping of the Gaussian input rays to redistribute the intensity to a flat top output. The collimated output beam can be expanded or reduced with conventional imaging optics. Using low dispersion refractive optics, Newport\'s beam shapers provide a 20-50% throughput improvement over diffractive solutions.

Expansion to the specified input beam diameter and spatial filtering of the input beam will likely be required to achieve the optimum output performance of the beam shaper. 
The visible Refractive Beam Shaper is based on patented technology from IBM Research. The ultraviolet and near-infrared refractive beam shapers have no internal focus, making them ideal for higher energy pulsed and CW laser applications.

The GBS-UV-H Beam Shaper is constructed of Ultraviolet safe components and processed in our Class 5 clean room to minimize out gassing and particulate generation. The aluminum housing is electroless Ni coated and every component is ultrasonically cleaned prior to assembly. TheGBS-UV-H is double-bagged in the Class 5 environment to assure the highest level of cleanliness. A protective carrying case is included for safe storage when not in use.
Contact Newport regarding additional wavelength ranges or your unique applications.

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Contact Newport regarding additional wavelength ranges or high-energy applications.