Mafusire, C2010-12-082010-12-082010-09Mafusire, C. 2010. Quality factor of aberrated gaussian laser beams. 55th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP), CSIR Convention Centre, Pretoria, 27 September - 1 October 2010, pp 15http://hdl.handle.net/10204/463455th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP), CSIR Convention Centre, Pretoria, 27 September - 1 October 2010A 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.enBeam quality factorZernike coefficientsLaser beamPhysicsSAIP Conference 2010Conference PresentationMafusire, C. (2010). Quality factor of aberrated gaussian laser beams. SAIP 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4634Mafusire, C. "Quality factor of aberrated gaussian laser beams." (2010): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4634Mafusire C, Quality factor of aberrated gaussian laser beams; SAIP 2010; 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4634 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Mafusire, C AB - 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. DA - 2010-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Beam quality factor KW - Zernike coefficients KW - Laser beam KW - Physics KW - SAIP Conference 2010 LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2010 T1 - Quality factor of aberrated gaussian laser beams TI - Quality factor of aberrated gaussian laser beams UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4634 ER -