LUCA
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| Schematic. From Scheme of Laser Facility |
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| Ti:sapphire oscillator. From CEA Photos. Same photo also available from CEA slide show. |
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| Ti:sapphire oscillator close-up. From CEA |
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| Ti:sapphire crystal during operation. From CEA Photos |
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| Dye amplifier. From CEA Photos |
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| Dye amplifier (another view). From CEA Photos |
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| Target chamber. From Coulomb explosion of clusters in high intensity laser pulses |
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| Pulse temporal contrast : 2 x 104 over 2 ps measured with a high dynamic cross-correllator |
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| Plot of available wavelengths. From LUCA page |
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| Plot from a magnetic deflection time-of-flight spectrometer (MD-TOF) of exploding xenon clusters under a 130 fs pulse with 5 x 1017 W cm-2 irradiance. There are approximately 106 Xe atoms per cluster which are generated in the supersonic expansion of a xenon gas jet. From Coulomb explosion of clusters in high intensity laser pulses |
