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Advanced Photonics Nexus
Vol. 2, Issue 6, 066009 (2023)

Coherently tiled Ti:sapphire laser amplification: a way to break the 10 petawatt limit on current ultraintense lasers | On the Cover

Yanqi Liu^1、2、†, Keyang Liu^1、3, Zhaoyang Li^1、2、*, Yuxin Leng^1、*, and Ruxin Li^{1、2、4、*}

Author Affiliations

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

²Zhangjiang Laboratory, Shanghai, China

³Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Center for Attosecond Science and Technology, Xi’an, China

⁴ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China

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Yanqi Liu, Keyang Liu, Zhaoyang Li, Yuxin Leng, Ruxin Li. Coherently tiled Ti:sapphire laser amplification: a way to break the 10 petawatt limit on current ultraintense lasers[J]. Advanced Photonics Nexus, 2023, 2(6): 066009 Copy Citation Text

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Yanqi Liu, Keyang Liu, Zhaoyang Li, Yuxin Leng, Ruxin Li. Coherently tiled Ti:sapphire laser amplification: a way to break the 10 petawatt limit on current ultraintense lasers[J]. Advanced Photonics Nexus, 2023, 2(6): 066009

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