Reliable stimulated Brillouin scattering compression of Nd:YAG laser pulses with liquid fluorocarbon for long-time operation at 10 Hz

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 30, 1998, Pages 7085-7090

  Kmetik, Viliam ^a   Fiedorowicz, Henryk ^a,b   Andreev, Alexander A ^a,c   Witte, Klaus J ^a,d   Daido, Hiroyuki ^a   Fujita, Hisanori ^a   Nakatsuka, Masahiro ^a   Yamanaka, Tatsuhiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE FOR LASER PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

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EID: 0001286351     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.007085     Document Type: Article

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