Beam delivery for stable isotope separation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4770, Issue , 2002, Pages 13-27

  Forbes, Andrew ^a   Strydom, Hendrik J ^a   Botha, Lourens R ^a   Ronander, E ^a  

^a Scientific Development and Integration (Pty) Ltd   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Beam propagation; Beam shaping; Carbon isotope enrichment

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; AMPLIFICATION; CALCULATIONS; CARBON; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; DISSOCIATION; IRRADIATION; ISOTOPES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTONS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; WAVEFRONTS;

BEAM PROPAGATION; BEAM SHAPING; CARBON ISOTOPE ENRICHMENT; INFRARED PHOTON; MULTI-PHOTON DISSOCIATION PROCESS; REACTOR CHAMBER;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0036981141     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.451640     Document Type: Article

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