Alignment of a tiled-grating compressor in a high-power chirped-pulse amplification laser system

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 30, 2007, Pages 7432-7435

  Hornung, Marco ^a   Bödefeld, Ragnar ^a   Siebold, Mathias ^a   Schnepp, Matthias ^a   Hein, Joachim ^a   Sauerbrey, Roland ^a   Kaluza, Malte C ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER RADIATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

LASER SYSTEM; TILED-GRATING COMPRESSORS;

COMPRESSORS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; OPTICS; PHOTON; TIME;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; OPTICS; PHOTONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 37549002098     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.007432     Document Type: Article

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