Comparison of phase-aberrated laser beam quality criteria

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 774-784

  Perevezentsev, Eugeny ^a   Poteomkin, Anatoly ^a   Khazanov, Efim ^a  

^a Inst of Applied Physics Problems   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; BEAM QUALITY; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LENSES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BEAM QUALITY DEGRADATION; ELECTRONIC SELF-FOCUSING; STREHL RATIO;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 33947172866     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.000774     Document Type: Article

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