Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 52, Issue 7, 0752310(2023)

Multifilament Array Generation and Control with a Four-petal Gaussian Femtosecond Laser Beam

Tao ZENG1、*, Yuliang YI1,2, and Lanjun GUO3
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physical Science and Technology,Chongqing Key Laboratory of Micro & Nano Structure Optoelectronics,Southwest University,Chongqing 400715,China
  • 2College of Chemistry,Liaoning Province Key Laboratory for Green Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry of Advanced Materials,Liaoning University,Shenyang 110036,China
  • 3Institute of Modern Optics,College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering,Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology,Nankai University,Tianjin 300350,China
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    Tao ZENG, Yuliang YI, Lanjun GUO. Multifilament Array Generation and Control with a Four-petal Gaussian Femtosecond Laser Beam[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2023, 52(7): 0752310

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    Received: May. 16, 2023

    Accepted: Jul. 10, 2023

    Published Online: Sep. 26, 2023

    The Author Email: Tao ZENG (taozeng@swu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20235207.0752310

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