Modulation instability in high power laser amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1380-1388

  Rubenchik, Alexander M ^a   Turitsyn, Sergey K ^b   Fedoruk, Michail P ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH POWER LASERS;

ADIABATIC APPROXIMATIONS; ADIABATIC MODELS; B-INTEGRAL; EXACT CALCULATIONS; EXACT SOLUTION; HIGH-POWER; HIGH-POWER LASER SYSTEMS; LASER SYSTEMS; MODULATION INSTABILITIES; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; PASSIVE OPTICS;

LASERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 75249093482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001380     Document Type: Article

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