Ultrafast picket fence pulse trains to enhance frequency conversion of shaped inertial confinement fusion laser pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 36, 2000, Pages 6931-6938

  Rothenberg, Joshua E ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Phaethon Communications   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IGNITION; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0347113441     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006931     Document Type: Article

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