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Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 10, 2854(2025)

Nonlinear spectral-temporal manipulation for chirp-free pulse synthesis at picosecond resolution

Dongning Liu^1,2, Youen Jiang^1,3、*, Xue Pan¹, Li Zhou¹, Xiaochao Wang¹, Xuechun Li^1,4、*, and Jianqiang Zhu¹

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¹Key Laboratory of High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³e-mail: joyen@siom.ac.cn

⁴e-mail: lixuechun@siom.ac.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: Mar. 18, 2025

Accepted: Jul. 15, 2025

Published Online: Sep. 22, 2025

The Author Email: Youen Jiang (joyen@siom.ac.cn), Xuechun Li (lixuechun@siom.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.562593

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.562593

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

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