Defining, measuring, and optimizing laser beam quality
Defining, measuring, and optimizing laser beam quality is a scholarly work, published in 1993 in ''Proceedings of SPIE''. The main subjects of the publication include quality, laser, optics, transverse plane, chemical oxygen iodine laser, Beam parameter product, beam, solid-state laser, Laser power scaling, formalism, computer science, laser beam quality, and physics. The 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.