Quality factor M 2
Laser welding. Power laser beams
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Quality factor M 2
Laser welding. Power laser beams

Author : Roland CAZES

Publication date: October 10, 2001 | Lire en français

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3. Quality factor M 2

The beam profiles of power lasers encountered in practice do not reflect the purity of the above equations. The high-temperature active medium increases the effects of diffraction in a non-homogeneous way, and it is thought that lower modes can develop within the dominant mode (m,n) . The definitions obtained for Gaussian beams cannot then be applied to these beams.

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