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Advanced Photonics, Volume. 5, Issue 5, 056001(2023)

Attosecond probing and control of charge migration in carbon-chain molecule

Lixin He¹, Yanqing He¹, Siqi Sun¹, Esteban Goetz², Anh-Thu Le², Xiaosong Zhu¹, Pengfei Lan^1、*, Peixiang Lu^1,3、*, and Chii-Dong Lin⁴

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¹Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Physics, Wuhan, China

²University of Connecticut, Department of Physics, Storrs, Connecticut, United States

³Wuhan Institute of Technology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Optical Information and Pattern Recognition, Wuhan, China

⁴Kansas State University, Department of Physics, Manhattan, Kansas, United States

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Category: Research Articles

Received: Apr. 26, 2023

Accepted: Jul. 27, 2023

Posted: Jul. 27, 2023

Published Online: Aug. 28, 2023

The Author Email: Lan Pengfei (pengfeilan@hust.edu.cn), Lu Peixiang (lupeixiang@hust.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.5.5.056001

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