• Optical Instruments
  • Vol. 44, Issue 6, 36 (2022)
Pengkun ZHENG and Jian CHEN*
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  • School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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    DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-5630.2022.006.006 Cite this Article
    Pengkun ZHENG, Jian CHEN. Method for generating highly confined linearly polarized spatiotemporal optical vortices[J]. Optical Instruments, 2022, 44(6): 36 Copy Citation Text show less
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