Abstract

The basic formulas and procedures for beam-quality measurements have been investigated for high-power industrial lasers designed for material processing applications. The beam quality definition of M2 is studied assuming laser beams extracted from stable resonators. The importance of the M2 definition is related to recent results with high-power high-brightness CO2 lasers and Nd: YAG lasers.

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