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Vol. 10, Issue 11, 2614 (2022)

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Yujie Cai¹, Yu Chen^{1、2、4、*}, Xiaoning Xin¹, Kun Huang¹, and E Wu^{1、2、3、5、*}

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing 401120, China

³Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

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