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20162025
most citedA multistep pulse compressor for 10s to 100s PW lasers

34 citations · 107 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.optics2025

Generation of ultra-intense spatiotemporal optical vortex

Renjing Chen, Yilin Xu, Fengyu Sun +5

Spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) with transverse orbital angular momentum (TOAM) can induce some novel properties in high energy density physics. However, the current STOV puls…

physics.optics2025

Quasi-perfect spatiotemporal optical vortex with suppressed mode degradation

Shunlin Huang, Xiong Shen, Renjing Chen +2

Spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) carrying transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) enriches the family of vortex beams and exhibit unique properties. Typically, a high-order S…

physics.optics2023

Self-compression of ultrahigh-peak-power lasers

Renjing Chen, Wenhai Liang, Yilin Xu +4

Pulse self-compression is a simple and economical method for improving the peak power of ultra-intense laser pulses. By solving a modified nonlinear Schrodinger equation considerin…

physics.optics2022

Diffraction properties of lights with transverse orbital angular momentum

Shunlin Huang, Peng Wang, Xiong Shen +2

Spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) is a unique optical vortex with phase singularity in the space-time domain and the photons in a STOV can carry transverse orbital angular momen…

physics.optics2022★ 27 cited

Multistep pulse compressor based on single-pass single-grating-pair main compressor

Shuman Du, Xiong Shen, Wenhai Liang +3

A multistage smoothing multistep pulse compressor (MPC) based on a single-pass single-grating-pair (SSGP) main compressor is proposed to simplify the entire petawatt (PW) compresso…

physics.optics2022

Multistage smoothing based multistep pulse compressor for ultrahigh peak power lasers

Shuman Du, Xiong Shen, Wenhai Liang +3

Ultrahigh peak power lasers are important scientific tools for frontier laser-physics researches, in which both the peak power improvement and operating safety are very important m…

physics.optics2021★ 4 cited

Beam smoothing based on prism pair for multistep pulse compressor in PW lasers

Shuman Du, Xiong Shen, Wenhai Liang +2

Ultra-short ultra-intense laser provides unprecedented experimental tools and extreme physical conditions to explore frontier secrets of nature. Recently, multistep pulse compresso…

physics.optics2021

Ultrafast photonic rainbow with controllable orbital angular momentum

Shunlin Huang, Peng Wang, Xiong Shen +2

Increasing any degree of freedom of light beam may open a wide application area of this special light beam. Vortex beam with a dimension of orbital angular momentum (OAM) as a usef…

physics.optics2021★ 2 cited

Asymmetric four-grating compressor for ultrafast high power lasers

Xiong Shen, Shuman Du, Jun Liu +1

The peak power improvement and running safety of petawatt (PW) lasers are limited by laser-induced damage of optical components with limited sizes and damage thresholds. Diffractio…

physics.optics2021★ 34 cited

A multistep pulse compressor for 10s to 100s PW lasers

Jun Liu, Xiong Shen, Shuman Du +1

High-energy tens (10s) to hundreds (100s) petawatt (PW) lasers are key tools for exploring frontier fundamental researches such as strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED), and t…

physics.optics2020★ 2 cited

In-house beam-splitting pulse compressor with compensated spatiotemporal coupling for high-energy petawatt lasers

Jun Liu, Xiong Shen, Zhe Si +5

One of the most serious bottleneck on achieving kilojoule-level high-energy petawatt (PW) to hundreds-petawatt (100PW) lasers with ps to fs pulse duration is the requirement of as…

physics.optics2019★ 15 cited

Single-shot fourth-order auto-correlator

Peng Wang, Xiong Shen, Jun Liu +1

The temporal contrast is one of the most important parameters of an ultra-high intense laser pulse. Third-order auto-correlator or cross-correlator have been widely used to charact…

physics.optics2019★ 9 cited

Temporal contrast reduction techniques for high dynamic-range single-shot temporal contrast measurement

Xiong Shen, Peng Wang, Jingxin Zhu +4

A single-shot characterization of the temporal contrast of a petawatt laser pulse with a high dynamic-range, is important not only for improving conditions of the petawatt laser fa…

physics.optics2019★ 8 cited

Generation of high-energy clean multicolored ultrashort pulses and their application in single-shot temporal contrast measurement

Peng Wang, Xiong Shen, Jun Liu +1

We demonstrate the generation of 100-μJ-level multicolored femtosecond pulses based on a single-stage cascaded four-wave mixing (CFWM) process in a thin glass plate. The generated…

physics.optics2016★ 6 cited

Compact transient-grating self-referenced spectral interferometry for sub-nanojoule femtosecond pulses characterization

Xiong Shen, Peng Wang, Jun Liu +1

The self-referenced spectral interferometry (SRSI) technique, which is usually used for microjoule-level femtosecond pulses characterization, is improved to characterize weak femto…