27 September 2010 to 1 October 2010
CSIR Convention Centre
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

The Beam Quality Factor of Aberrated Gaussian Laser Beams

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CSIR Convention Centre

CSIR Convention Centre

CSIR, Pretoria
Presentation Track C - Lasers, Optics and Spectroscopy

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)

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