Evaluation of chirped-pulse-amplification systems with Offner triplet telescope stretchers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 678-683

  Jiang, Jie ^a   Zhang, Zhigang ^b   Hasama, Toshifumi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; AMPLIFICATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISPERSION (WAVES); OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RAY TRACING;

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATIONS (CPA);

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0006032870     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000678     Document Type: Article

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