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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 19, Issue 4, 043201 (2021)

Even-order high-harmonic generation from solids in velocity gauge | Editors' Pick

Jiayuan Cao^1、2, Na Li¹, Ya Bai^1、*, Peng Liu^1、2、**, and Ruxin Li¹

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¹State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-Intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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