The impact of laser damage on the lifetime of optical components in fusion lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5273, Issue , 2004, Pages 312-324

  Bercegol, Hervé ^a   Bouchut, Philippe ^b   Lamaignère, Laurent ^a   Le Garrec, Bruno ^a   Razé, Gérard ^a  

^a CEA Ctr Etud Sci/Tech Aquitaine   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; LASER BEAMS; LASER FUSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION;

GROWTH RATES; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE DAMAGE;

LASER DAMAGE;

EID: 5544304915     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.524843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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