Handbook of Optical and Laser Scanning, Second Edition (Optical Engineering)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: CRC
Published: July 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1175
ISBN-13: 9780824755690
Subjects: Applied optics; Optics; Lasers in Medicine; Technology & Industrial Arts; Medical; Scanning Systems; Engineering - General; Technology / Lasers; Lasers; Congresses; Optical scanners
First sentence: The M2 model, in the characterization of laser beams, is currently the preferred way of quantitatively describing a laser beam including its propagation through free space and lenses; specifically as ratios of its parameters with respect to the simplest theoretical gaussian laser beam.