Spatiotemporal optical wavepackets: from concepts to applications

Xin Liu; Qian Cao; Qiwen Zhan

doi:10.3788/PI.2024.R08

Photonics Insights, Volume. 3, Issue 4, R08(2024)

Spatiotemporal optical wavepackets: from concepts to applications Story Video , On the Cover

Xin Liu^1,2,3, Qian Cao^1,4, and Qiwen Zhan^1,4,5,6、*

¹School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

²Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China

³Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China

⁴Zhangjiang Laboratory, Shanghai, China

⁵Westlake Institute for Optoelectronics, Hangzhou, China

⁶International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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