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Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 6, 1666(2025)

High-precision spatiotemporal profiler of femtosecond laser pulses

Zegui Wang¹, Qijun You¹, Yun Gao¹, Peixiang Lu^1,2, and Wei Cao^1、*

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¹School of Physics and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

²Optics Valley Laboratory, Wuhan 430074, China

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Paper Information

Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: Feb. 11, 2025

Accepted: Apr. 6, 2025

Published Online: May. 30, 2025

The Author Email: Wei Cao (weicao@hust.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.559295

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.559295

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology