Technical challenges and motivations for high energy petawatt lasers on NIF

Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 612-615

  Barty, C P J ^a   Key, M ^a   Britten, J ^a   Brown, C ^a   Caird, J ^a   Dawson, J ^a   Erlandson, A C ^a   Dixit, S ^a   Hermann, M ^a   Jones, L ^a   Jovanovic, I ^a   Komashko, A ^a   Landen, O ^a   Liao, Z ^a   Molander, W ^a   Moses, E ^a   Nielson, N ^a   Payne, S ^a   Pennington, D ^a   Risinger, L ^a   Skulina, K ^a   Spaeth, M ^a   Zapata, L ^a   more..

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION (CPA); HIGH ENERGY PETAWATT (HEPW); LASER SYSTEMS; PULSE GENERATION;

AMPLIFICATION; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; NEODYMIUM; OPTICS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; RADIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

HIGH ENERGY LASERS;

EID: 19944433116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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