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X. Rendement, élargissement spectral et écart à la gaussienne en fonction du chirp : définition d'un critère de compression optimale pour les impulsions "few-cycle" à partir de l'effet, p.84

F. Traces, 3% respectivement (taille de la grille: 256 x 256) Amplitude spectrale mesurée (ligne hachurée ) et reconstruite (ligne pleine) et phase spectrale reconstruite (ligne pointillée) après la fibre (c) et l'XPW (d) Profil temporel des impulsions few-cycle après la fibre (e) et l'XPW (f). (g) Profils temporels en échelle logarithmique des impulsions few-cycle optimisées après, avec un écart de 0.5% et 0

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L. Mesure-de-la-dérive-de, CEP avec boucle de rétro-action après XPW. A partir de, p.99

B. De, Spectres avant et après XPW; (b) stabilité en énergie mesurée à 1,7 J sur 3500 tirs non consécutifs; mesures de contraste après l'XPW au niveau microjoule (c), et après amplification des impulsions au niveau du Joule (d) ? pour comparaison, en gris, le laser avant XPW, et, en rouge, la mesure avant amplification au niveau du Joule. . . . . . . . . . . . 111

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G. Schéma-des, 12 (a) Méthode de caractérisation de la loi de dispersion du compresseur par interférométrie Michelson (illustration adaptée à partir de, p.140

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