Abstract

The spot formed by focusing an elliptical laser beam through an ordinary objective lens can be optimized by properly filling the objective lens. Criteria are given for maximizing the central irradiance and the line-spread function. An optimized spot is much less elliptical than the incident laser beam. For beam ellipticities as high as 2:1, this spatial filtering reduces the central irradiance by <14%.

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