“…9 Experimentally significantly simpler procedures to directly measure the CSD of a light source are based on, e.g., the determination of corresponding phase-space functions, such as the Wigner-distribution function, 10 wavefront sensing, 11 or holography. 12 As we will show in the following, with a certain level of a priori knowledge about the light source, such as the resonator design, the measurement of the beam propagation ratio M 2 may already be sufficient for an accurate estimation of Γ.…”