STUDY OF BEAM ABERRATIONS IN A GERMANIUM-XXIII XUV LASER-AMPLIFIER

Authors
SMITH CG KEY MH CAIRNS G DWIVEDI L KRISHNAN J LEWIS CLS MACPHEE AG NEELY D RAMSDEN SA TALLENTS G
Citation
Cg. Smith et al., STUDY OF BEAM ABERRATIONS IN A GERMANIUM-XXIII XUV LASER-AMPLIFIER, Optics communications, 130(1-3), 1996, pp. 69-74
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
130
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
69 - 74
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1996)130:1-3<69:SOBAIA>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
A beam of amplified spontaneous emission at 23.2/23.6 nm from a GeXXII I XUV laser has been injected into a separate amplifier plasma and the astigmatic aberrations introduced by plasma density gradients in the amplifier have been estimated from analysis of images of the amplified beam.