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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 2, 020201(2024)

Reconstructing coherent dynamics of bound states induced by strong attosecond XUV pulses

Lijuan Jia¹, Mingqing Liu¹, Xinqiang Wang¹, Long Xu², Peiguang Yan¹, Wei-Chao Jiang^1、*, and Libin Fu^3、**

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¹Institute of Quantum Precision Measurement, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

²Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China

³Graduate School of China Academy of Engineering Physics, Beijing 100193, China

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Paper Information

Category: Atomic and Molecular Optics

Received: Aug. 2, 2023

Accepted: Sep. 25, 2023

Posted: Sep. 25, 2023

Published Online: Feb. 22, 2024

The Author Email: Wei-Chao Jiang (jiang.wei.chao@szu.edu.cn), Libin Fu (lbfu@gscaep.ac.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202422.020201

CSTR:32184.14.COL202422.020201

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