The absorption of light in transmissive optics cause a thermally induced effect known as thermal lensing. This effect provokes an often undesired change of a laser beam transmitted by the optic. In this paper we present a measurement method that allows us to determine thermal lensing in commonly used optical components. The beam influenced by the thermal lens is expanded into the eigenmodes of an optical cavity, and its modal content is analyzed in the eigenbasis of the cavity. The measured quantity depends neither on beam parameters nor on the position of the optical component under investigation. This method allows, to our knowledge, for the first time the direct measurement of the mode conversion coefficient |ε(2)| of the thermal lens.
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