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This is all too complicated, let’s simplify everything now. In most cases, for example when you are using a magnifying lens, the glass is so narrow and light travels so fast, that the double refraction that we calculated above is negligible. Let’s consider these lenses now, as thin lenses and see how that simplifies things for us.

After this step, you follow Snell’s law as you did in the previous section for a curved lens. This new ray now continues until the other side of the lens.

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However, real laser light is not purely directional because some propagation effects can distort the laser beam, especially if it is interacting with nonlinear media. When you propagate laser beam it gets broadened with distance. In order to achieve an adequate beam size and directivity you need to additionally precisely control, measure and direct laser beam with lenses and mirrors.

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The laser beam is highly coherent, which means that the electromagnetic waves are in the same phase with each other and propagate in the same direction. You can get a laser beam of high intensity and directivity by superposition of electromagnetic waves that are in phase. Such a highly directional beam can be focused on a very sharp point, which is not possible with ordinary light.

You can be surprised by the fact that measured linewidths of real solid-state lasers, such as diode-pumped YAG lasers, are <1 kHz. This is not the bottom line. In fact, linewidths less than 1Hz are also achievable by suppression of external noise influence. Narrow-linewidth lasers are used in holography, frequency metrology and light detection and ranging (LIDAR).

Since the discovery of the laser, more than 30 Nobel Prizes have been awarded in the field of natural sciences for scientific discoveries directly related to lasers. In 2018, Donna Strickland became the second woman to receive a Nobel Prize in physics, which she was awarded for her work on ultra-short and high-intensity laser pulses. Measuring the laser's properties with precision and accuracy is key to such research, which is why Gentec-EO develops and manufactures high-accuracy laser power meters and laser energy meters.

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I hope this looks familiar, because it is very similar to what we did with curved mirrors. Since the surface of the lenses are carved out of spherical shapes, they are given centers of curvature and focal points. Since the lens has a curvature on both sides, there will be two focal points and two centers, as shown above. The line drawn through the middle of the lens is principal axis as we saw it with curved mirrors. For the sake of simplicity, we will assume that the lens is perfectly symmetrical, meaning that both focal distances are equal, such that f’ = f.

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Ordinary light sources mainly emit polychromatic light and their emission is spatial. The source of ordinary light emits many rays in all directions, randomly. Ordinary light consists of a mixture of rays with different wavelengths, where each wavelength corresponds to one color that your eyes register.

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Treating this and drawing ray diagrams for a biconvex lens is essentially two refractions (one on the way into the lens and the other on the way out) along curved surfaces. So let’s look at the steps necessary to draw the ray diagram for light going through a lens.

The sun, stars and fire are natural sources of ordinary light. We recognize the light received by the human eye as white, whether it is the light of a lamp or the sun. However, we do not notice the spectrum of colors that make white, except through a prism by which light can be decomposed into different components.

Take a look at other types of light sources: incoherent light sources (light bulbs, LED, stars). These sources produce radiation by spontaneous emission in all directions, with a spread of wavelengths and no interrelationships among individual photons. Spontaneous emission is a random process. On the other hand, lasers use stimulated emission, producing photons with identical properties (all photons move at the same wavelength and direction).

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Laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is an artificial source of light radiation that emits a coherent beam of photons, as the source is stable in frequency, wavelength, and power. Unlike the light emitted by common sources, such as light bulbs, laser light is mostly monochromatic, i.e. only one specific wavelength (color).

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When we talk about highly monochromatic lasers, we consider that the beam linewidth is very narrow. You can use these lasers especially for applications such as laser spectroscopy or coupling with optical fibers in fiber communications.

The laser has also become an important research instrument and has found its application in many fields, such as the correction of vision, the sharpening of the astronomical image from space, testing the DNA molecule and in obtaining pure energy by laser fusion of atoms.

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Before I start going through everything however, here are a few rules to follow assuming that the object is located on the left of the lens in the above diagram:

Specific properties of artificial light obtained by lasers are advantageous for transmitting data for hundreds of miles, up to terabits per second, by a convenient, single wavelength coherent source. Nowadays, you can transmit data with laser beams through free-space optics technology over moderate distances with many Gbit/s data rates.