Performance of a prototype for a large-aperture multipass Nd:glass laser for inertial confinement fusion

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4932-4953

  Van Wonterghem, Bruno M ^a   Murray, John R ^a   Campbell, Jack H ^a   Speck, D Ralph ^a   Barker, Charles E ^a   Smith, Ian C ^a   Browning, Donald F ^a   Behrendt, William C ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic generation; Inertial confinement fusion; Nd:glass laser

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000604141     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004932     Document Type: Article

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