Analysis of thermal aberrations in a high average power single-stage Ti:sapphire regenerative chirped pulse amplifier: Simulation and experiment

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Ramanathan, Vidya ^a   Lee, Jinho ^a   Xu, Shengbo ^a   Wang, Xiaoming ^a   Williams, Luke ^a   Malphurs, William ^a   Reitze, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFEROMETRY; MEASUREMENT THEORY; POWER GENERATION; PUMPING (LASER); SAPPHIRE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TITANIUM;

OPTICAL PATH DEFORMATIONS (OPD); OPTIMAL PUMPING CONDITIONS; PUMP-PROBE THERMAL LENS POWER; THERMAL ABERRATIONS;

PULSE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33750501842     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2360989     Document Type: Conference Paper

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