Adaptive aberration control in laser amplifiers and laser resonators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4969, Issue , 2003, Pages 122-136

  Wittrock, Ulrich ^a   Buske, Ivo ^a   Heuck, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aberrations; Adaptive optics; Laser amplifiers; Laser resonators

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LASER BEAMS; LASER RESONATORS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

LASER AMPLIFIERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0242662652     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.499281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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