Speaker
Mr
Cosmas Mafusire
(CSIR National Laser Centre)
Description
A model is used to calculate the beam quality factor of a laser beam from Zernike coefficients. It is tested by programming aberration coefficients on a laser beam and measuring the beam quality using a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor. The two show excellent agreement.
Primary author
Mr
Cosmas Mafusire
(CSIR National Laser Centre)
Co-author
Prof.
Andrew Forbes
(CSIR National Laser Center)