Photonics Research, Volume. 10, Issue 3, 802(2022)

Powerful supercontinuum vortices generated by femtosecond vortex beams with thin plates

Litong Xu1,2、†, Dongwei Li1、†, Junwei Chang1, Deming Li1, Tingting Xi2,3、*, and Zuoqiang Hao1,4、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations & Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
  • 2School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3e-mail: ttxi@ucas.ac.cn
  • 4e-mail: zqhao@sdnu.edu.cn
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    [1] Litong Xu, Dongwei Li, Junwei Chang, Deming Li, Tingting Xi, Zuoqiang Hao, "Powerful supercontinuum vortices generated by femtosecond vortex beams with thin plates: publisher’s note," Photonics Res. 10, 973 (2022)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Ultrafast Optics

    Received: Sep. 20, 2021

    Accepted: Jan. 13, 2022

    Published Online: Mar. 1, 2022

    The Author Email: Tingting Xi (ttxi@ucas.ac.cn), Zuoqiang Hao (zqhao@sdnu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.443501

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