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Advanced Photonics Nexus
Vol. 2, Issue 4, 046009 (2023)

Generation and control of extreme ultraviolet free-space optical skyrmions with high harmonic generation

Yiqi Fang¹ and Yunquan Liu^{1、2、3、*}

Author Affiliations

¹Peking University, School of Physics, State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-Optoelectronics, Beijing, China

²Shanxi University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Taiyuan, China

³Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing, China

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