High-power short-pulse laser repetition rate improvement by adaptive wave front correction

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 5186-5192

  Wattellier, B ^a   Fuchs, J ^a,b,c   Zou, J P ^a   Abdeli, K ^a   Haefner, C ^c,d   Pepin H ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE WAVE FRONTS; LASER REPETITION RATE; SPECTRAL GAIN; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ERROR CORRECTION; FOCUSING; THERMAL EFFECTS; WAVEFRONTS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 20444450549     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1819379     Document Type: Article

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