• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 49, Issue 12, 20201050 (2020)
Bing Gu, Yueqiu Hu, and Bo Wen
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  • Advanced Photonics Center, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20201050 Cite this Article
    Bing Gu, Yueqiu Hu, Bo Wen. Research progress of third-order nonlinear optical effects excited by vectorial light fields (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2020, 49(12): 20201050 Copy Citation Text show less
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