Single-wavelength size focusing of ultra-intense ultrashort lasers with rotational hyperbolic mirrors

Zhaoyang Li; Yanqi Liu; Xiaoyang Guo; Yuxin Leng; Ruxin Li

doi:10.1117/1.APN.3.3.036002

Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 3, Issue 3, 036002(2024)

Single-wavelength size focusing of ultra-intense ultrashort lasers with rotational hyperbolic mirrors

Zhaoyang Li1...2,*, Yanqi Liu1, Xiaoyang Guo3, Yuxin Leng2, and Ruxin Li1,24 |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Zhangjiang Laboratory, Shanghai, China

²Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Key Laboratory of Ultra-intense Laser Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

³Shenzhen Technology University, College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen, China

⁴ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China

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