Multi - Petawatt High Energy laser project on the LIL facility in aquitaine

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5975, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Blanchot, N ^a   Bignon, E ^a   Coic H ^a   Cotel, A ^c   Couturier, E ^a   Deschaseaux, G ^a   Forget, N ^c   Freysz, E ^d   Hugonnot, E ^a   Le Blanc, C ^c   Loustalet, N ^a   Luce, J ^a   Marre, G ^a   Migus, A ^d   Montant, S ^b   Mousset, S ^a   Noailles, S ^a   Neauport J ^a   Rouyer, C ^a   Rulliere C ^a,d   Sauteret, C ^c   Videau, L ^a   Vivini, P ^a   more..

^a CEA CESTA   (France)

^b CENTRE LASERS INTENSES ET APPLICATIONS   (France)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM;

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION (CPA); OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION (OPCPA);

HIGH ENERGY LASERS;

EID: 33645062423     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.675495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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