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Ultrafast optics

A closer look at ultra-intense lasers

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The spatiotemporal characterization of a high-peak-power pulsed laser beam reveals previously undetected wavefront distortions.

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Figure 1: Detection of wavefront distortions.

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  1. Tamas Nagy and Günter Steinmeyer are at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Straße 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany,

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Nagy, T., Steinmeyer, G. A closer look at ultra-intense lasers. Nature Photon 10, 502–504 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.151

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