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Mode mismatch detector for mismatch figure-of-merit between two nodes

finesse importer requested to merge feature/mismatch_detector into master

This is mainly motivated by the fact that I've often found myself performing the same calculations in a somewhat cumbersome way many times --- i.e. using beam property detectors then manually computing mismatches with the output q data.

The ModeMismatchDetector automates all this and spits out 1 - O(q1p, q2) for each data point; where q1p is the beam parameter, q1, at node 1 propagated to node 2 via the associated ABCD matrix view, and q2 is the beam parameter at node 2. The detector output is a number between [0, 1] by default, but percent=True can be set to put these values into percentage form instead.

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