Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 51, Issue 10, 1014002(2022)

Applications of Femtosecond Four-wave Mixing in Ultrafast and Ultraintense Laser Technology(Invited)

Peng WANG1, Yaping XUAN1,2, Yilin XU1,2, Xiong SHEN1, Shunlin HUANG1,2, Jun LIU1,2、*, and Ruxin LI1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science,State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics,Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Shanghai 201800,China
  • 2Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China
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    Peng WANG, Yaping XUAN, Yilin XU, Xiong SHEN, Shunlin HUANG, Jun LIU, Ruxin LI. Applications of Femtosecond Four-wave Mixing in Ultrafast and Ultraintense Laser Technology(Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(10): 1014002

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    Received: Jun. 29, 2022

    Accepted: Oct. 9, 2022

    Published Online: Nov. 30, 2022

    The Author Email: Jun LIU (jliu@zjlab.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20225110.1014002

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