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    Journals >Photonics Research >Volume 12 >Issue 10 >Page 2409 > Article
    • Photonics Research
    • Vol. 12, Issue 10, 2409 (2024)
    Scheme for generation of spatiotemporal optical vortex attosecond pulse trains
    Jiahao Dong1, Liang Xu1,6,*, Yiqi Fang2, Hongcheng Ni3..., Feng He4,5, Songlin Zhuang1 and Yi Liu1,5,7,*|Show fewer author(s)
    Author Affiliations
  • 1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • 2Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
  • 4Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education) and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 5CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 6e-mail: liangxu2021@usst.edu.cn
  • 7e-mail: yi.liu@usst.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.528051 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jiahao Dong, Liang Xu, Yiqi Fang, Hongcheng Ni, Feng He, Songlin Zhuang, Yi Liu, "Scheme for generation of spatiotemporal optical vortex attosecond pulse trains," Photonics Res. 12, 2409 (2024) Copy Citation Text show less
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