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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 2, 144(2018)

Valence state manipulation of Sm³⁺ ions via a phase-shaped femtosecond laser field

Ye Zheng¹, Yunhua Yao¹, Lianzhong Deng^1、*, Wenjing Cheng², Jianping Li¹, Tianqing Jia¹, Jianrong Qiu³, Zhenrong Sun¹, and Shian Zhang^1,4,5

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu 476000, China

³State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

⁴Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

⁵e-mail: sazhang@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

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Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: Oct. 24, 2017

Accepted: Dec. 12, 2017

Published Online: Jul. 10, 2018

The Author Email: Lianzhong Deng (lzdeng@phy.ecnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000144

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