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Photonics Insights, Volume. 2, Issue 3, R06(2023)

Plasma-based terahertz wave photonics in gas and liquid phases Story Video

Yuxuan Chen1... Yuhang He1, Liyuan Liu1, Zhen Tian1,*, Xi-Cheng Zhang2,* and Jianming Dai1,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Center for Terahertz Waves & School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
  • 2The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA
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    Category: Review Articles

    Received: Mar. 29, 2023

    Accepted: Jun. 5, 2022

    Published Online: Aug. 15, 2023

    The Author Email: Tian Zhen (tianzhen@tju.edu.cn), Zhang Xi-Cheng (xi-cheng.zhang@rochester.edu), Dai Jianming (jianmingdai@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/PI.2023.R06

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