A combination of state-of-the-art temporal and spatial shaping techniques enables shaping pulsed laser light in all dimensions in a correlated manner, paving the way for new classes of on-demand space–time wavepackets.
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Béjot, P., Kibler, B. Taming light in all dimensions. Nat. Photon. 16, 671–672 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01073-0
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