• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 4, 922 (2022)
Miguel López-Ripa*, Íñigo J. Sola, and Benjamín Alonso
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  • Grupo de Aplicaciones del Láser y Fotónica (ALF), Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
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    Miguel López-Ripa, Íñigo J. Sola, Benjamín Alonso. Bulk lateral shearing interferometry for spatiotemporal study of time-varying ultrashort optical vortices[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(4): 922 Copy Citation Text show less
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