Which consequence results when thermal lensing occurs in high powered lasers?

💡 Explanation

Increased temperature in the laser medium causes a change in refractive index, resulting in thermal lensing; because this functions as a diverging lens, therefore beam divergence increases, rather than wavelength/polarization (which may shift, weakly) or mode-locking becoming unstable.

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