Overview of 'Super-ASHURA' KrF Laser program

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 44, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 91-96

  Owadano, Y ^a   Okuda, I ^a   Matsumoto, Y ^a   Matsushima, I ^a   Takahashi, E ^a   Miura, E ^a   Yashiro, H ^a   Tomie, T ^a   Kuwahara, K ^b   Shinbo, M ^b  

^a ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Irradiation smoothness; Multi pass forward amplification; Power pulse generation; Saturated backward amplification; Super ASHURA KrF laser

Indexed keywords

EID: 6644223815     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(98)00350-0     Document Type: Article

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