Development of a pumping laser system for x-ray laser research

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2198-2205

  Kawachi, Tetsuya ^a   Kado, Masataka ^a   Tanaka, Momoko ^a   Hasegawa, Noboru ^a   Nagashima, Keisuke ^a   Sukegawa, Kouta ^a   Lu, Peixiang ^a   Takahashi, Kenjiro ^a   Namba, Sinichi ^a   Koike, Masato ^a   Nagashima, Akira ^a   Kato, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; AMPLIFICATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; X RAY LASERS;

SPHERICAL MIRRORS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 0042383186     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002198     Document Type: Article

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