Generation of superposed orbital angular momentum beams using a free-electron laser oscillator
Abstract
With wavelength tunability, free-electron lasers (FELs) are well-suited for generating orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams in a wide photon energy range. We report here the first experimental demonstration of OAM beam generation using an oscillator FEL with the tens of picosecond pulse duration. Lasing around 458 nm, we have produced the four lowest orders of superposed Laguerre-Gaussian beams using a very long FEL resonator of 53.73 m. The produced beams have good beam quality, excellent stability, and substantial average power. We have also developed a pulsed operation mode for these beams with a highly reproducible temporal structure for a range of repetition rate of 1–30 Hz. This development can be extended to short wavelengths, for example to x-rays using a future x-ray FEL oscillator. The OAM operation of such a storage-ring FEL also paves the way for the generation of OAM gamma-ray beams via inverse Compton scattering.
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- Optics Express
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- Journal Name: Optics Express Journal Volume: 32 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
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Liu, Peifan, Yan, Jun, Afanasev, Andrei, Benson, Stephen V., Hao, Hao, Mikhailov, Stepan F., Popov, Victor G., and Wu, Ying K. Generation of superposed orbital angular momentum beams using a free-electron laser oscillator. United States: N. p., 2024.
Web. doi:10.1364/OE.510649.
Liu, Peifan, Yan, Jun, Afanasev, Andrei, Benson, Stephen V., Hao, Hao, Mikhailov, Stepan F., Popov, Victor G., & Wu, Ying K. Generation of superposed orbital angular momentum beams using a free-electron laser oscillator. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.510649
Liu, Peifan, Yan, Jun, Afanasev, Andrei, Benson, Stephen V., Hao, Hao, Mikhailov, Stepan F., Popov, Victor G., and Wu, Ying K. Mon .
"Generation of superposed orbital angular momentum beams using a free-electron laser oscillator". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.510649.
@article{osti_2279126,
title = {Generation of superposed orbital angular momentum beams using a free-electron laser oscillator},
author = {Liu, Peifan and Yan, Jun and Afanasev, Andrei and Benson, Stephen V. and Hao, Hao and Mikhailov, Stepan F. and Popov, Victor G. and Wu, Ying K.},
abstractNote = {With wavelength tunability, free-electron lasers (FELs) are well-suited for generating orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams in a wide photon energy range. We report here the first experimental demonstration of OAM beam generation using an oscillator FEL with the tens of picosecond pulse duration. Lasing around 458 nm, we have produced the four lowest orders of superposed Laguerre-Gaussian beams using a very long FEL resonator of 53.73 m. The produced beams have good beam quality, excellent stability, and substantial average power. We have also developed a pulsed operation mode for these beams with a highly reproducible temporal structure for a range of repetition rate of 1–30 Hz. This development can be extended to short wavelengths, for example to x-rays using a future x-ray FEL oscillator. The OAM operation of such a storage-ring FEL also paves the way for the generation of OAM gamma-ray beams via inverse Compton scattering.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.510649},
journal = {Optics Express},
number = 2,
volume = 32,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2024},
month = {Mon Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2024}
}
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