A spectrally and polarization-resolved wavefront detector can measure the spatio-temporal vector electric field of ultrashort laser pulses in a single shot.
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Arnold, C.L., Guo, C. & Miranda, M. Single-shot spatio-temporal characterization of petawatt laser pulses. Nat. Photon. 19, 785–786 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-025-01728-8
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