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Chinese Optics, Volume. 16, Issue 5, 996(2023)

Review of the cavity-design of high-energy thin-disk laser multi-pass amplifiers

Yi CHEN1, Jun-jie SUN1,2、*, Jing-hua YU1,2, Zhi-huan YAO1,2, Yi-wen ZHANG1, De-yang YU1, Yang HE1, Kuo ZHANG1, Qi-kun PAN1, and Fei CHEN1、*
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Laser Interaction with Matter, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    Yi CHEN, Jun-jie SUN, Jing-hua YU, Zhi-huan YAO, Yi-wen ZHANG, De-yang YU, Yang HE, Kuo ZHANG, Qi-kun PAN, Fei CHEN. Review of the cavity-design of high-energy thin-disk laser multi-pass amplifiers[J]. Chinese Optics, 2023, 16(5): 996

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    Category: Review

    Received: Jan. 5, 2023

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    Published Online: Oct. 27, 2023

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    DOI:10.37188/CO.2023-0009

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