Generation of extreme-ultraviolet beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum
Abstract
Light fields carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) provide powerful capabilities for applications in optical communications, microscopy, quantum optics, and microparticle manipulation. We introduce a property of light beams, manifested as a temporal OAM variation along a pulse: the self-torque of light. Although self-torque is found in diverse physical systems (i.e., electrodynamics and general relativity), it was not realized that light could possess such a property. We demonstrate that extreme-ultraviolet self-torqued beams arise in high-harmonic generation driven by time-delayed pulses with different OAM. We monitor the self-torque of extreme-ultraviolet beams through their azimuthal frequency chirp. Lastly, this class of dynamic-OAM beams provides the ability for controlling magnetic, topological, and quantum excitations and for manipulating molecules and nanostructures on their natural time and length scales.
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- University of Salamanca (Spain)
- University of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO (United States)
- The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona (Spain)
- The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona (Spain); ICREA, Barcelona (Spain)
- University of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO (United States); Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories Inc. (KMLabs Inc.), Boulder, CO (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division (CSGB); National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1677508
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1907867
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-99ER14982; DGE-1650115
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 364; Journal Issue: 6447; Journal ID: ISSN 0036-8075
- Publisher:
- AAAS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
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Rego, Laura, Dorney, Kevin M., Brooks, Nathan J., Nguyen, Quynh L., Liao, Chen-Ting, San Román, Julio, Couch, David E., Liu, Allison, Pisanty, Emilio, Lewenstein, Maciej, Plaja, Luis, Kapteyn, Henry C., Murnane, Margaret M., and Hernández-García, Carlos. Generation of extreme-ultraviolet beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1126/science.aaw9486.
Rego, Laura, Dorney, Kevin M., Brooks, Nathan J., Nguyen, Quynh L., Liao, Chen-Ting, San Román, Julio, Couch, David E., Liu, Allison, Pisanty, Emilio, Lewenstein, Maciej, Plaja, Luis, Kapteyn, Henry C., Murnane, Margaret M., & Hernández-García, Carlos. Generation of extreme-ultraviolet beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw9486
Rego, Laura, Dorney, Kevin M., Brooks, Nathan J., Nguyen, Quynh L., Liao, Chen-Ting, San Román, Julio, Couch, David E., Liu, Allison, Pisanty, Emilio, Lewenstein, Maciej, Plaja, Luis, Kapteyn, Henry C., Murnane, Margaret M., and Hernández-García, Carlos. Fri .
"Generation of extreme-ultraviolet beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw9486. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1677508.
@article{osti_1677508,
title = {Generation of extreme-ultraviolet beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum},
author = {Rego, Laura and Dorney, Kevin M. and Brooks, Nathan J. and Nguyen, Quynh L. and Liao, Chen-Ting and San Román, Julio and Couch, David E. and Liu, Allison and Pisanty, Emilio and Lewenstein, Maciej and Plaja, Luis and Kapteyn, Henry C. and Murnane, Margaret M. and Hernández-García, Carlos},
abstractNote = {Light fields carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) provide powerful capabilities for applications in optical communications, microscopy, quantum optics, and microparticle manipulation. We introduce a property of light beams, manifested as a temporal OAM variation along a pulse: the self-torque of light. Although self-torque is found in diverse physical systems (i.e., electrodynamics and general relativity), it was not realized that light could possess such a property. We demonstrate that extreme-ultraviolet self-torqued beams arise in high-harmonic generation driven by time-delayed pulses with different OAM. We monitor the self-torque of extreme-ultraviolet beams through their azimuthal frequency chirp. Lastly, this class of dynamic-OAM beams provides the ability for controlling magnetic, topological, and quantum excitations and for manipulating molecules and nanostructures on their natural time and length scales.},
doi = {10.1126/science.aaw9486},
journal = {Science},
number = 6447,
volume = 364,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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Fig. 1: Generation of EUV beams with self-torque. (A) Two time-delayed, collinear IR pulses with the same wavelength (800 nm), but different OAM values, are focused into an argon gas target (HHG medium) to produce harmonic beams with self-torque. The spatial profile of the complete, time-integrated, HHG beam frommore »
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