Knife edge experiment

Beam width calculation

1- After drawing the graph at origin we follow the below steps to do the fitting
a) Analysis -> Mathematics -> Differentiate
b) Analysis -> fitting -> Fit Single Peak
2- From the fitting graph use the screen reader to find the maximum value at the
peak as shown at the following picture

3- Use this value to find the beam diameter following the below calculations
1833.286
w ( z )= =248.108
e2
At this value we can calculate the beam diameter as, 3.141−1.174=1.967 mm ->
radius 0.9835
4- To find the beam waist
λf
W 0=
nπw ( z )
( 800 x 10−9 ) ( 5 x 10−2 )
W 0= −3
=8.811 x 10−6 m
( 1.47 )( 3.14 ) ( 0.9835 x 10 )