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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 22, Issue 5, 051901 (2024)

Generation of 160 nm vacuum ultraviolet light at 82 MHz in a KBBF crystal by the fifth-harmonic of a Ti:sapphire laser

Yun Zhang^1,* and Lirong Wang^2,3

Author Affiliations

¹Department of Engineering Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan

²State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

³Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

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