YANG Lianbin , XU Litong , XI Tingting . Filamentation extension of femtosecond vortex beams by air density holes[J]. Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2023 , 40(4) : 433 -440 . DOI: 10.7523/j.ucas.2023.024

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