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Photonics Research
Vol. 9, Issue 3, 357 (2021)

Structured laser beams: toward 2-μm femtosecond laser vortices

Yongguang Zhao^1、2、*, Li Wang², Weidong Chen², Pavel Loiko³, Xavier Mateos⁴, Xiaodong Xu¹, Ying Liu¹, Deyuan Shen¹, Zhengping Wang⁵, Xinguang Xu⁵, Uwe Griebner¹, and Valentin Petrov¹

Author Affiliations

¹Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China

²Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, 12489 Berlin, Germany

³Centre de Recherche sur les Ions, les Matériaux et la Photonique (CIMAP), UMR 6252 CEA-CNRS-ENSICAEN, Université de Caen, Caen 14050, France

⁴Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Física i Cristal·lografia de Materials i Nanomaterials (FiCMA-FiCNA), Marcel.li Domingo 1, 43007 Tarragona, Spain

⁵State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials and Institute of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

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Yongguang Zhao, Li Wang, Weidong Chen, Pavel Loiko, Xavier Mateos, Xiaodong Xu, Ying Liu, Deyuan Shen, Zhengping Wang, Xinguang Xu, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov. Structured laser beams: toward 2-μm femtosecond laser vortices[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(3): 357 Copy Citation Text

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Yongguang Zhao, Li Wang, Weidong Chen, Pavel Loiko, Xavier Mateos, Xiaodong Xu, Ying Liu, Deyuan Shen, Zhengping Wang, Xinguang Xu, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov. Structured laser beams: toward 2-μm femtosecond laser vortices[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(3): 357

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