Large-aperture grating tiling by interferometry for petawatt chirped-pulse-amplification systems

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9562-9574

  Qiao, J ^a   Kalb, A ^a   Guardalben, M J ^a   King, G ^a   Canning, D ^a   Kelly, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DEGRADATION; ERRORS; INTERFEROMETRY; PULSE COMPRESSION; REAL TIME CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PULSE COMPRESSORS; REAL-TIME INTERFEROMETRIC TILING; THREE-TILE GRATING;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 34547478386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009562     Document Type: Article

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