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High-power laser beams: defining, measuring and optimizing transverse beam quality
Anthony E.. Siegman
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Abstract
This paper reviews a useful formalism for defining the transverse beam quality and other propagation parameters of arbitrary real laser beams. We also describe a convenient new instrument for measuring the beam quality and other optical propagation parameters of high- power laser beams.