Pulse-front control of 15-TW pulses with a tilted compressor, and application to the subpicosecond traveling-wave pumping of a soft-x-ray laser

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 151-157

  Chanteloup, Jean Christophe ^a   Salmon, Estelle ^a   Sauteret, Christian ^a   Migus, Arnold ^a   Zeitoun, Philippe ^b   Klisnick, Annie ^b   Carillon, Antoine ^b   Hubert, Stéphane ^b   Ros, David ^b   Nickles, Peter ^c   Kalachnikov, Mikhail ^c  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL   (France)

^c MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

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EID: 0010142967     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.000151     Document Type: Article

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