Fluence scan: An unexplored property of a laser beam

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 26363-26375

  Chalupský, Jaromír ^a,b   Burian, Tomáš ^a   Hájková, Věra ^a,b   Juha, Libor ^a   Polcar, Tomáš ^b   Gaudin, Jérôme ^c   Nagasono, Mitsuru ^d   Sobierajski, Ryszard ^e   Yabashi, Makina ^d   Krzywinski, Jacek ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d RIKEN Harima Institute Research   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^f SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; X RAYS;

BEAM CONTOURS; BEAM PROFILES; EFFECTIVE AREA; EFFECTIVE BEAMS; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; LASER-MATTER INTERACTIONS; SHORT-WAVELENGTH;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 84887497891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.026363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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