Tunable orbital angular momentum in high-harmonic generation

Gauthier, David; Ribič, P. Rebernik; Adhikary, G.; Camper, A.; Chappuis, C.; Cucini, R.; DiMauro, L. F.; Dovillaire, G.; Frassetto, F.; Géneaux, R.; Miotti, P.; Poletto, L.; Ressel, B.; Spezzani, C.; Stupar, M.; Ruchon, T.; De Ninno, Giovanni

doi:10.1038/ncomms14971

Title: Tunable orbital angular momentum in high-harmonic generation

Journal Article · Wed Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14971· OSTI ID:1361172

Gauthier, David ^[1]; Ribič, P. Rebernik ^[1]; Adhikary, G. ^[2]; Camper, A. ^[3]; Chappuis, C. ^[4]; Cucini, R. ^[1]; DiMauro, L. F. ^[3]; Dovillaire, G. ^[5]; Frassetto, F. ^[6]; Géneaux, R. ^[4]; Miotti, P. ^[6]; Poletto, L. ^[6]; Ressel, B. ^[2]; Spezzani, C. ^[7]; Stupar, M. ^[2]; Ruchon, T. ^[4]; De Ninno, Giovanni ^[8]

Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste,Trieste (Italy)
Univ. of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica (Slovenia)
The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
Imagine Optic, Orsay (France)
Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies, Padova (Italy)
Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay (France)
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste,Trieste (Italy); Univ. of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica (Slovenia)

Optical vortices are currently one of the most intensively studied topics in optics. These light beams, which carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), have been successfully utilized in the visible and infrared in a wide variety of applications. Moving to shorter wavelengths may open up completely new research directions in the areas of optical physics and material characterization. Here, we report on the generation of extreme-ultraviolet optical vortices with femtosecond duration carrying a controllable amount of OAM. From a basic physics viewpoint, our results help to resolve key questions such as the conservation of angular momentum in highly nonlinear light–matter interactions, and the disentanglement and independent control of the intrinsic and extrinsic components of the photon’s angular momentum at short-wavelengths. The methods developed here will allow testing some of the recently proposed concepts such as OAM-induced dichroism, magnetic switching in organic molecules and violation of dipolar selection rules in atoms.

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Research Organization:: Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste,Trieste (Italy); The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-04ER15614

OSTI ID:: 1361172

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1362024

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 8; ISSN 2041-1723

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