Tunable orbital angular momentum in high-harmonic generation
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- 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)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste,Trieste (Italy); The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1361172
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1362024
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-04ER15614
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; high-harmonic generation; nonlinear optics; ultrafast photonics
Citation Formats
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., and De Ninno, Giovanni. Tunable orbital angular momentum in high-harmonic generation. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms14971.
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. Tunable orbital angular momentum in high-harmonic generation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14971
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., and De Ninno, Giovanni. Wed .
"Tunable orbital angular momentum in high-harmonic generation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14971. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1361172.
@article{osti_1361172,
title = {Tunable orbital angular momentum in high-harmonic generation},
author = {Gauthier, David and Ribič, P. Rebernik and Adhikary, G. and Camper, A. and Chappuis, C. and Cucini, R. and DiMauro, L. F. and Dovillaire, G. and Frassetto, F. and Géneaux, R. and Miotti, P. and Poletto, L. and Ressel, B. and Spezzani, C. and Stupar, M. and Ruchon, T. and De Ninno, Giovanni},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms14971},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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