Development of petawatt laser amplification systems at the central laser facility

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6735, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Chekhlov, O ^a   Divall, E J ^a   Eitel, K ^a   Hawkes, S J ^a   Hooker, C J ^a   Ross, I N ^a   Matousek, P ^a   Hernandez Gomez, C ^a   Musgrave, I ^a   Tang, Y ^a   Winstone, T ^a   Neely, D ^a   Clarke, R ^a   Foster, P ^a   Hancock, S J ^a   Wyborn, B E ^a   Collier, J L ^a  

^a Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse amplification; Grating compressor; Optical parametric amplification; Radial delay

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; OPTICAL DESIGN;

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION; GRATING COMPRESSOR; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PETAWATT CLASS SYSTEM; RADIAL DELAY;

LASERS;

EID: 36749061909     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.753222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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