Controlling the polarization and vortex charge of attosecond high-harmonic beams via simultaneous spin–orbit momentum conservation

KM Dorney, L Rego, NJ Brooks, J San Román… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Optical interactions are governed by both spin and angular momentum conservation laws,
which serve as a tool for controlling light–matter interactions or elucidating electron …

Nonlinear up-conversion of a polarization Möbius strip with half-integer optical angular momentum

M Luttmann, M Vimal, M Guer, JF Hergott… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Symmetries and conservation laws of energy, linear momentum, and angular momentum
play a central role in nonlinear optics. Recently, paraxial light fields with nontrivial topology …

Extreme-ultraviolet vector-vortex beams from high harmonic generation

A de las Heras, AK Pandey, J San Román, J Serrano… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Structured light in the short-wavelength regime opens exciting avenues for the study of
ultrafast spin and electronic dynamics. Here, we demonstrate theoretically and …

Attosecond vortex pulse trains

A de las Heras, D Schmidt, J San Román, J Serrano… - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The landscape of ultrafast structured light pulses has significantly advanced thanks to the
ability of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) to translate the spatial properties of infrared …

Generation of complex vector and vortex extreme ultraviolet beams using the S-waveplate and spiral phase plate during high-order harmonics generation in argon

V Kärcher, VV Kim, ANK Reddy, H Zacharias… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report the generation of vector and vortex high-order harmonic beams in argon using the
femtosecond laser pulses propagated through the phase-modifying optical elements (S …

Characterization of extreme ultraviolet vortex beams with a very high topological charge

AK Pandey, A de las Heras, T Larrieu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent developments of high harmonic generation (HHG) have enabled the production of
structured extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) ultrafast laser beams with orbital angular momentum …

Conservation of torus-knot angular momentum in high-order harmonic generation

E Pisanty, L Rego, J San Román, A Picón… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
High-order harmonic generation stands as a unique nonlinear optical up-conversion
process, mediated by a laser-driven electron recollision mechanism, which has been shown …

Circularly Polarized High-Harmonic Beams Carrying Self-Torque or Time-Dependent Orbital Angular Momentum

A de Las Heras, J San Román, J Serrano, L Plaja… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In the rapidly evolving field of structured light, self-torque has been recently defined as an
intrinsic property of light beams carrying time-dependent orbital angular momentum. In …

Phase-matching of high-order harmonic generation in the extreme ultraviolet region with orbital angular momentum

J Gao, C Yang, X Ge, Y Zheng, Z Zeng, R Li - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
High-order harmonics can generate vortex beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) in
the extreme ultraviolet region. However, experimental research on their phase-matching …

Ptychographic amplitude and phase reconstruction of bichromatic vortex beams

Y Esashi, CT Liao, B Wang, N Brooks, KM Dorney… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate that ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging can be used
to simultaneously characterize the amplitude and phase of bichromatic orbital angular …