Hello. I'm new to this forum, and just recently started to get interested in lasers.
I am a mechanical engineer but so far in my career never seriously using laser.
After googling for some hours I found this site looks very informative.
My project is to make a laser beam expander so that a laser beam can be focused far away from the source.
I have read some sources on the internet but it ended up in "collimate the laser".
For example galilean telescope.
What I need is not just collimating, but to focus laser beam (waist become...