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Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 7, 1872(2025)

Flying spring and multi-ring ultrashort laser pulses with tunable wavefield dynamics Spotlight on Optics

Enar Franco, Óscar Martínez-Matos, and José A. Rodrigo^*

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Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Madrid 28040, Spain

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Paper Information

Category: Physical Optics

Received: Jan. 2, 2025

Accepted: Apr. 12, 2025

Published Online: Jun. 25, 2025

The Author Email: José A. Rodrigo (jarmar@fis.ucm.es)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.554256

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.554256

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

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