A 50-EW/cm2 Ti:sapphire laser system for studying relativistic light-matter interactions

Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 196-202

  Walker, Barry C ^b   Tóth, Csaba ^c   Fittinghoff, David N ^c   Guo, Ting ^d   Kim, Dong Eon ^e   Rose Petruck, Christoph ^f   Squier, Jeff A ^g   Yamakawa, Koichi ^h   Wilson, Kent R ^a   Barty, C P J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c Institute for Nonlinear Science   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Department of Electrical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^h JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SAPPHIRE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TITANIUM; ULTRASHORT PULSES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

LASER AMPLIFIERS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRAHIGH INTENSITIES; X-RAY GENERATION;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0000510541     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.5.000196     Document Type: Article

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