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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 7, 071901(2023)

Self-focusing of partially coherent beams based on complex screen and split-step Fourier transform methods

Fanglun Yang1,2,3, Guowen Zhang2,3,4、*, Xiaoqi Zhang2,3, Yanli Zhang2,3, Ruifeng Wang2,3,4, and Jianqiang Zhu2,3、**
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  • 1School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 3National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 4University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    Fanglun Yang, Guowen Zhang, Xiaoqi Zhang, Yanli Zhang, Ruifeng Wang, Jianqiang Zhu, "Self-focusing of partially coherent beams based on complex screen and split-step Fourier transform methods," Chin. Opt. Lett. 21, 071901 (2023)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Nonlinear Optics

    Received: Feb. 14, 2023

    Accepted: Apr. 14, 2023

    Published Online: Jul. 14, 2023

    The Author Email: Guowen Zhang (guowenzhang@siom.ac.cn), Jianqiang Zhu (jqzhu@siom.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202321.071901

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