Temporal Aberrations Due to Misalignments of a Stretcher-Compressor System and Compensation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 1662-1670

  Fiorini, C ^a   Sauteret, C ^a   Rouyer, C ^a   Blanchot, N ^a   Seznec, S ^a   Migus, A ^c  

^a CEA DIF   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ALIGNMENT; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ERROR COMPENSATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LASER PULSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION; SPATIALLY TRANSVERSE EFFECTS; STRETCHER COMPRESSOR DEVICES;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0028468095     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.299499     Document Type: Article

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