Wavefront correction and aberrations pre-compensation in the middle of Petawatt-class CPA laser chains

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Canova, Federico ^a   Canova, Lorenzo ^a   Chambaret, Jean Paul ^a   Levecq, Xavier ^b   Lavergne, Emeric ^b   Dovillaire, Guillaume ^b   Planchon, Thomas A ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^b Imagine Optic   (France)

^c Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION OF ABERRATIONS; CPA LASERS; LASER CHAINS; PRE-COMPENSATION; WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION;

ABERRATIONS;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 82955233630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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