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Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 10, 2409(2024)

Scheme for generation of spatiotemporal optical vortex attosecond pulse trains

Jiahao Dong¹, Liang Xu^1,6、*, Yiqi Fang², Hongcheng Ni³, Feng He^4,5, Songlin Zhuang¹, and Yi Liu^1,5,7、*

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¹Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

²Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany

³State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

⁴Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education) and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

⁵CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, China

⁶e-mail: liangxu2021@usst.edu.cn

⁷e-mail: yi.liu@usst.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: Apr. 30, 2024

Accepted: Jul. 20, 2024

Published Online: Oct. 8, 2024

The Author Email: Liang Xu (liangxu2021@usst.edu.cn), Yi Liu (yi.liu@usst.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.528051

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.528051

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