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Vol. 7, Issue 1, 016001 (2025)

All-optical spatiotemporal oscilloscope for few-cycle optical waveform

Qi Zeng¹, Xinyue Yang¹, Yimin Deng¹, Wei Cao^1,*, and Peixiang Lu^1,2

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¹Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Physics and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China

²Optics Valley Laboratory, Wuhan, China

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