Problem with supergaussian beam profile

[Hallberg]

Hi!

I've just upgraded from chi2D v. 6.3 to v. 7.8 and noticed that when I enter a supergaussian beam profile (e.g. by entering "6" in the "beam shape" box of the properties section of the GUI) it seems like the program still produces a regular gaussian beam profile. Similar settings with v. 6.3 resulted in what was clearly a flat-top supergaussain. Any advice on dealing with this problem?

Thanks!

[tinolang]

Hi, The difference between the old and the new version is the way to enter the supergaussian order. By changing this in the new version I tried to be consistent to the way it is done for the temporal pulse shape "supergauss=6". So it was meant to be a feature:), unfortunately I forgot to change the help pop-up text. I fixed this in the new version.
You might need to reinstall the chi2D webinstaller, since I used a newer version of th MCR in this version.
You can also try to only start the new version of chi2D.exe first.