10-10 temporal contrast for femtosecond ultraintense lasers by cross-polarized wave generation

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 920-922

  Jullien, Aurélie ^a,b   Albert, Olivier ^a   Burgy, Frédéric ^a   Hamoniaux, Guy ^a   Rousseau, Jean Philippe ^a   Chambaret, Jean Paul ^a   Augé Rochereau, Frédérika ^a   Chériaux, Gilles ^a   Etchepare, Jean ^a   Minkovski, Nikolay ^c   Saltiel, Solomon M ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; PREAMPLIFICATION; SPECTRAL SHAPES; WAVE GENERATION;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; POLARIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TENSORS; XENON;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 20244385464     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.000920     Document Type: Article

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