Precision short-pulse damage test station utilizing optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 5193-5202

  Jovanovic, Igor ^a   Brown, Curtis ^a   Wattellier, Benoit ^a   Nielsen, Norman ^a   Molander, William ^a   Stuart, Brent ^a   Pennington, Deanna ^a   Barty, C P J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC GRATINGS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFIERS (OPCPA); PICOSECOND PULSES; THERMAL DEPOSITION;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASERS; SILICA; STRESS ANALYSIS; SWITCHING;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 18744413425     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1819382     Document Type: Article

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