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To expand a small Chinese green laser pointer beam while maintaining collimation, a telescope with two lenses can be built, but the collimation quality will depend on the source's beam quality. Producing a collimated beam of arbitrary size from a laser diode like the Nichia NDG7H75E requires addressing the different divergence in the fast and slow axes, often using cylindrical or aspheric lenses for synchronization. Spatial filtering may be beneficial, depending on the desired outcome, and should be located at the focal plane of the collimator. Understanding classical optics and laser diodes is essential for selecting the appropriate optics. Overall, achieving optimal beam characteristics may require some experimentation and additional research into optics.
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I have a small Chinese green laser pointer. It produces a very bright collimated beam, roughly 2mm diameter with its existing optics. I would like to know two things: (1) how to expand the laser pointer beam while maintaining collimation, (2) how to produce a collimated beam of any arbitrary size from the bare laser diode chip, for example from a Nichia NDG7H75E.

These are multi-transverse mode laser diodes. Should their emissions be spatially filtered before collimating?
 
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Hop-AC8NS said:
how to expand the laser pointer beam while maintaining collimation
Build a telescope with two lenses. The resulting collimation quality (divergence, really) depends on the beam quality from the source.

Hop-AC8NS said:
how to produce a collimated beam of any arbitrary size from the bare laser diode chip, for example from a Nichia NDG7H75E.
Most all laser diodes (edge emitters) have different divergence in the two axes (called the fast or slow axis). So good beam collimation usually uses something like a cylindrical or aspheric lens to get everything in synch. The size change is the magnification of your telescope.

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These are multi-transverse mode laser diodes. Should their emissions be spatially filtered before collimating?
IDK, that depends on what you want. Spatial filters are located at the focal plane, aren't they? So maybe in the middle of your collimator.

Ultimately if you are going to do this, you'll have to study a bit about classical optics and laser diodes. We can't choose optics for you. There should be a ton of information on the web about this subject.

I will note that cheap Chinese green laser pointers have remarkably crappy beam characteristics. Still they will have collimated it as best they can/want. But then my experience was all with really, really good (and expensive) lasers. The physics world always assumes you have perfect beams, so some fiddling will be required.
 
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