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.
Reference:
Mafusire, 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 15
Mafusire, C. (2010). Quality factor of aberrated gaussian laser beams. SAIP 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4634
Mafusire, C. "Quality factor of aberrated gaussian laser beams." (2010): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4634
