Design of a multi-petawatt optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier for the iodine laser Asterix IV

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 158-163

  Matousek, Pavel ^a   Rus, Bedrich ^b   Ross, Ian N ^a  

^a Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER PULSES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER);

IODINE LASERS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFIERS (OPCPA); PETAWATT LASERS;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 0033895967     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.823461     Document Type: Article

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