Re: Laser Difraction

From: Helpful person (rrllff_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: 22 Jun 2004 11:01:57 -0700

Gremlin <Gr3mlin@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<Xns9510698DEC9CDTest@216.168.3.44>...
> I have a 7mW NeHE laser here. I have read that using something similar to
> a telescope I can significantly reduce difraction on the beam. I have a
> telescope here as well, but regardless of how I point the laser through the
> telescope the beam either comes out bigger than before or not at all. I
> must be doing something wrong, but what, and how do I do it right!?
> Thanks!

Your laser is behaving exactly as it should. What do you understand
your phrase "significantly reduce difraction on the beam" to mean?

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