Pump beams homogenization for Terawatt / Petawatt class Ti:Sapphire amplifiers

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007, CLEO 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Canova, Federico ^a   Chambaret, Jean Paul ^a   Reversat, F ^b   Tisserand, S ^b   Plé, Fabien ^c   Pittman, Moana ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^b SILIOS Technologies   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES MOLÉCULAIRES D ORSAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM TRANSPORT; COHERENCE PROPERTIES; DAMAGE THRESHOLD; PETAWATT; PUMP BEAMS; PUMP LASER; TERAWATT; TI:SAPPHIRE;

POWER AMPLIFIERS; PUMPS; SAPPHIRE;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 82955233618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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