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Advanced Photonics
Vol. 1, Issue 5, 056001 (2019)

Single-shot fourth-order autocorrelator

Peng Wang¹, Xiong Shen¹, Jun Liu^{1、2、3、*}, and Ruxin Li^{1、2、3、*}

Author Affiliations

¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, Beijing, China

³Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai, China

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