• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 50, Issue 8, 0850203 (2021)
Wei CAO1 and Peixiang LU2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan430074, China
  • 2Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan430074, China
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    Wei CAO, Peixiang LU. Ultrafast Measurement Techniques Using High-order Harmonic Based Attosecond Light Sources (Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2021, 50(8): 0850203 Copy Citation Text show less
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