Reaffirmed 2022

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (First Revision) which is identical with ISO 12005 : 2003 ‘Lasers and laserrelated equipment - Test methods for laser beam parameters - Polarization’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Educational Instruments and Equipment Sectional Committee and approval of the Production and General Engineering Division Council.

This standard was originally published in 2001. This revision has been taken to align it with the latest version of ISO 12005.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain terminology and conventions are however not identical to those used in Indian Standards.Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice to use a full point (.) as the decimal marker.