Adaptive optical systems in impulse powerful laser installations

The book sets out physical, technical and calculation-theoretical issues of designing devices and adaptive optics systems in pulsed powerful laser installations. Interest in this topic is caused by a truly boom of creating impulse powerful laser installations and acquiring a clear outlines by the prospect of creating a thermonuclear power plant based on such lasers.
The synthesis of the ideas of adaptive optics in combination with the analysis of the features of the functioning of multi -pass impulse lasers allows you to create systems that repeatedly increase the characteristics of these lasers. Optimization of all elements of the system, including a laser, is made from the position of spatial filtration of laser radiation.
A description of more than twenty years of development of this direction is given and its prospects are highlighted.
The book is intended for scientific and engineers in the field of electronics, optics and accurate instrumentation. Recommended by graduate students and senior students