Generation of terawatt pulses by use of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2422-2427

  Ross, Ian N ^a   Osvay, Karoly ^b   Matousek, Pavel ^a   Danson, Colin N ^a   Neely, David ^a   Allott, Ric M ^a   Pepler, Dave A ^a   Hernandez Gomez, Cristina ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING;

ENERGY EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0000589223     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002422     Document Type: Article

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