Gratings for high-energy petawatt lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5991, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Nguyen, H T ^a   Britten, J A ^a   Carlson, T C ^a   Nissen, J D ^a   Summers, L J ^a   Hoaglan, C R ^a   Aasen, M D ^a   Peterson, J E ^a   Jovanovic, I ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

High energy petawatt laser; Multilayer dielectric diffraction grating; Reactive ion beam etching

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; HIGH ENERGY LASERS; ION BEAMS; LASER DAMAGE; REACTIVE ION ETCHING;

HIGH-ENERGY PETAWATT LASER; MULTILAYER DIELECTRIC DIFFRACTION GRATING; REACTIVE ION BEAM ETCHING;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 33644592956     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.633689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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