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Laser Beam Orbits
The interesting mathematical truths that explain the elliptical plot of paraxial ray tracing between the mirrors of a laser resonator.
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“Nothing can ever replace the effect of just fooling around,” as one of my professors once remarked. And it’s true. Undirected exploration in the laboratory, or in theory, lets you stumble across ideas and results that you would never otherwise find.
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