Performance of large-aperture optical switches for high-energy inertial-confinement fusion lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 1995, Pages 5312-5325

  Rhodes, Mark A ^a   Woods, B ^a   Deyoreo, J J ^a   Roberts, D ^a   Atherton, L J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inertial confinement fusion; Laser; Plasma; Pockels cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975572560     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.34.005312     Document Type: Article

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