Generation of ultrashort light pulses carrying orbital angular momentum using a vortex plate retarder-based approach
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| author | Tapani, Tlek Lin, Haifeng De Andres, Aitor Jolly, Spencer W. Bhuvanendran, Hinduja Maccaferri, Nicolò |
| author_facet | Tapani, Tlek Lin, Haifeng De Andres, Aitor Jolly, Spencer W. Bhuvanendran, Hinduja Maccaferri, Nicolò |
| contents | We use a vortex retarder-based approach to generate few optical cycles light pulses carrying orbital angular momentum (known also as twisted light or optical vortex) from a Yb:KGW oscillator pumping a noncollinear optical parametric amplifier generating sub-10 fs linearly polarized light pulses in the near infrared spectral range (central wavelength 850 nm). We characterize such vortices both spatially and temporally by using astigmatic imaging technique and second harmonic generation-based frequency resolved optical gating, respectively. The generation of optical vortices is analyzed, and its structure reconstructed by estimating the spatio-spectral field and Fourier transforming it into the temporal domain. As a proof of concept, we show that we can also generate sub-20 fs light pulses carrying orbital angular momentum and with arbitrary polarization on the first-order Poincaré sphere. |
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| spellingShingle | Generation of ultrashort light pulses carrying orbital angular momentum using a vortex plate retarder-based approach Tapani, Tlek Lin, Haifeng De Andres, Aitor Jolly, Spencer W. Bhuvanendran, Hinduja Maccaferri, Nicolò Optics Applied Physics We use a vortex retarder-based approach to generate few optical cycles light pulses carrying orbital angular momentum (known also as twisted light or optical vortex) from a Yb:KGW oscillator pumping a noncollinear optical parametric amplifier generating sub-10 fs linearly polarized light pulses in the near infrared spectral range (central wavelength 850 nm). We characterize such vortices both spatially and temporally by using astigmatic imaging technique and second harmonic generation-based frequency resolved optical gating, respectively. The generation of optical vortices is analyzed, and its structure reconstructed by estimating the spatio-spectral field and Fourier transforming it into the temporal domain. As a proof of concept, we show that we can also generate sub-20 fs light pulses carrying orbital angular momentum and with arbitrary polarization on the first-order Poincaré sphere. |
| title | Generation of ultrashort light pulses carrying orbital angular momentum using a vortex plate retarder-based approach |
| topic | Optics Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07327 |