Finite size compression gratings in a large aperture chirped pulse amplification laser system

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 33, 1997, Pages 8567-8573

  Trentelman, Mark ^a   Ross, Ian N ^a   Danson, Colin N ^a  

^a Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse amplification; Pulse compression; Short pulse generation

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION LASER SYSTEM; INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORM; LASER PLASMA INTERACTION; PULSE COMPRESSION; SHORT PULSE GENERATION;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0031273078     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008567     Document Type: Article

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