"We will focus like a laser beam on the 83% of global trade that is beyond the United States," von der Leyen said during a press briefing in Brussels.

These images were linear in the focal ... One application of this uniform intensity line focus is in wide-area laser machining, where ‘flat top’ beams are commonly sought.

If you’ve used a diode laser ... focus, but it isn’t that simple. [Makers Mashup] shows in a video how to use an adjustable IR filter to cut out all the light bleed to get a sharp image ...