Defining, measuring, and optimizing laser beam quality
Abstract
This paper will review a very general and useful formalism that has recently been developed for defining the transverse beam quality as well as other propagation parameters of arbitrary real laser beams. We also describe a convenient new instrument for measuring the propagation parameters of high-power laser beams, and summarize some results of beam quality measurements on various types of laser devices.
- Publication:
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Laser Resonators and Coherent Optics: Modeling, Technology, and Applications
- Pub Date:
- August 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.150601
- Bibcode:
- 1993SPIE.1868....2S
- Keywords:
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- High Power Lasers;
- Laser Outputs;
- Optimization;
- Quality Control;
- Computer Aided Design;
- General Overviews;
- Laser Applications;
- Lasers and Masers