The petawatt laser system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3047, Issue , 1997, Pages 490-500

  Pennington, D M ^a   Perry, M D ^a   Stuart, B C ^a   Boyd, R ^a   Britten, J A ^a   Brown, C G ^a   Herman, S ^a   Miller, J L ^a   Nguyen, H ^a   Shore, B ^a   Tietbohl, G ^a   Yanovsky, V ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION;

EFFECTIVE FOCAL LENGTHS; HIGH ENERGY DENSITY PHYSICS; LASER FACILITIES; PARABOLIC MIRRORS; PETAWATT LASER SYSTEMS; STANDALONE SYSTEMS; TARGET CHAMBERS; TARGETING SYSTEMS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 85076095866     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.294337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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