How to model laser beam propagation in OpticStudio: Part 1 ...
In this case, we know the beam waist location is inside of the Laser housing. Using equation (1), with the calculated beam waist 0.0125 mm and Rayleigh range 1.383 mm, we can manually calculate the beam propagation distance z from its waist, around 111.1 mm, when the beam hits the measurement location.