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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 41, Issue 15, Pages 2809-2817Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.002809
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A combination of a Hartmann-Shack sensor and a standard far-field measurement on one single detector is proposed. The technique is fast and operates without movable parts, thus permitting a compact design. It is not only suited for characterization of the wave-front distribution but may also be considered for determination of the important parameters of beam width, beam divergence, and beam propagation ratio M-2 of partially coherent laser beams. First results indicate that a fairly thorough beam characterization, including spatial coherence, propagation characteristics, and beam quality, can be achieved with this method. (C) 2002 Optical Society of America.
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