Compact neodymium phosphate glass laser emitting 300J/300GW pulses for pumping of a chirped pulse optical parametric amplifier

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6610, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Poteomkin, A K ^a   Katin, E V ^a   Khazanov, E A ^a   Kirsanov, A V ^a   Luchinin, G A ^a   Mal'Shakov, A N ^a   Martyanov, M A ^a   Palashov, O V ^a   Shaykin, A A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Aperture filling factor; High pulse laser; Nd:YLF laser; Neodymium glass lasers; Small scale self focusing; Spatial filters

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED PULSE; NEODYMIUM PHOSPHATE GLASS LASER; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER; SINGLE OPTICAL TABLE;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GLASS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; PHOSPHATES; RADIATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 36248976646     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.739822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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