Seven-terawatt Ti:sapphire laser system operating at 50 Hz with high beam quality for laser Compton femtosecond X-ray generation

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 497-503

  Ito, S ^a   Ishikawa, H ^a   Miura, T ^b   Takasago, K ^a   Endo, A ^a   Torizuka, K ^c  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SENSORS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; X RAY LASERS;

CLOSED LOOP CORRECTION RESULTS; HIGH BEAM QUALITY; LASER COMPTON FEMTOSECOND X RAY GENERATION; SHACK-HARTMANN TYPE WAVEFRONT SENSOR; THERMAL LENSING; TITANIUM SAPPHIRE LASER SYSTEMS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0038007602     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-003-1144-4     Document Type: Article

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