• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 6, Issue 4, 296 (2018)
Jiayu Zhao1,2, Weiwei Liu2,*, Shichang Li1, Dan Lu2..., Yizhu Zhang3, Yan Peng1,4, Yiming Zhu1,5 and Songlin Zhuang1|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Systems, College of Optics and Electronic Information Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • 2Institute of Modern Optics, Key Laboratory of Optical Information Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  • 3Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
  • 4e-mail: py@usst.edu.cn
  • 5e-mail: ymzhu@usst.edu.cn
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    Jiayu Zhao, Weiwei Liu, Shichang Li, Dan Lu, Yizhu Zhang, Yan Peng, Yiming Zhu, Songlin Zhuang, "Clue to a thorough understanding of terahertz pulse generation by femtosecond laser filamentation," Photonics Res. 6, 296 (2018) Copy Citation Text show less
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