1. Laser beam quality

   • H. Weber

   Editorial Pages: vii - vii

2. Some historical and technical aspects of beam quality

   • H. Weber

   Tutorial Pages: S861 - S864

3. Correction of astigmatism and ellipticity of an astigmatic Gaussian laser beam by symmetrical lenses

   • T. Tari
   • P. Richter

   Determination of Beam Quality and Mode Structure Pages: S865 - S872

4. Rotation of partially coherent beams propagating through free space

   • J. Serna
   • P. M. Mejías
   • R. Martínez-Herrero

   Determination of Beam Quality and Mode Structure Pages: S873 - S880

5. Beam quality in monomode diode lasers

   • J. Serna
   • P. M. Mejías
   • R. Martínez-Herrero

   Determination of Beam Quality and Mode Structure Pages: S881 - S887

6. Multichannel laser resonators — an experimental study

   • E. F. Yelden
   • H. J. J. Seguin
   • H. Reshef

   Determination of Beam Quality and Mode Structure Pages: S889 - S902

7. Beam parameters, mode structure and diffraction losses of slab lasers with unstable resonators

   • N. Hodgson
   • T. Haase

   Determination of Beam Quality and Mode Structure Pages: S903 - S926

8. Determination of laser beam parameters with the phase space beam analyser

   • N. Hodgson
   • T. Haase
   • H. Weber

   Determination of Beam Quality and Mode Structure Pages: S927 - S949

9. Laser beams with phase singularities

   • N. R. Heckenberg
   • R. McDuff
   • M. J. Wegener

   Determination of Beam Quality and Mode Structure Pages: S951 - S962

10. Measurements of the waist and the power distribution across the transverse modes of a laser beam

    • A. Cutolo
    • F. Ferreri
    • L. Zeni

    Determination of Beam Quality and Mode Structure Pages: S963 - S971

11. Definition and measurements of high-power laser beam parameters

    • N. Reng
    • B. Eppich

    Determination of Beam Quality and Mode Structure Pages: S973 - S992

12. Laser beam width, divergence and beam propagation factor — an international standardization approach

    • D. Wright
    • P. Greve
    • L. Austin

    Determination of Beam Quality and Mode Structure Pages: S993 - S1000

13. Time varyingM ² inQ-switched lasers

    • A. Caprara
    • G. C. Reali

    Determination of Beam Quality and Mode Structure Pages: S1001 - S1009

14. ABCD law for partially coherent Gaussian light, propagating through first-order optical systems

    • M. J. Bastiaans

    ABCD Law, Propagation and Higher Order Moments Pages: S1011 - S1019

15. Third- and fourth-order parametric characterization of partially coherent beams propagating throughABCD optical systems

    • R. Martínez-Herrero
    • P. M. Mejías
    • J. L. H. Neira

    ABCD Law, Propagation and Higher Order Moments Pages: S1021 - S1026

16. Propagation of higher-order intensity moments in quadratic-index media

    • H. Weber

    ABCD Law, Propagation and Higher Order Moments Pages: S1027 - S1049

17. Beam propagation in a linear or nonlinear lens-like medium usingABCD ray matrices: the method of moments

    • C. Paré
    • P. -A. Bélanger

    ABCD Law, Propagation and Higher Order Moments Pages: S1051 - S1070

18. Propagation of super-Gaussian field distributions

    • A. Parent
    • M. Morin
    • P. Lavigne

    ABCD Law, Propagation and Higher Order Moments Pages: S1071 - S1079

19. Coherence and intensity moments of laser light

    • K. -M. Du
    • G. Herziger
    • F. Rühl

    Coherence and Statistics Pages: S1081 - S1093

20. Computation of the statistical properties of laser light

    • K. -M. Du
    • G. Herziger
    • F. Rühl

    Coherence and Statistics Pages: S1095 - S1108

21. The Wigner distribution function applied to laser radiation

    • R. Gase

    Coherence and Statistics Pages: S1109 - S1118

22. Measurement of the mode coherence coefficients

    • K. -M. Du
    • G. Herziger
    • F. Rühl

    Coherence and Statistics Pages: S1119 - S1127

23. Beamwidths of a diffracted laser using four proposed methods

    • D. Wright

    Invited Paper Pages: S1129 - S1135

24. Announcement

    Announcement Pages: S1136 - S1137