High-Order Harmonic Generation Driven by Perfect Optical Vortex Beams: Exploring the Orbital Angular Momentum Upscaling Law

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Main Authors: Das, Bikash Kumar, Granados, C., Krüger, M., Ciappina, Marcelo F.
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Published: 2024
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author Das, Bikash Kumar
Granados, C.
Krüger, M.
Ciappina, Marcelo F.
author_facet Das, Bikash Kumar
Granados, C.
Krüger, M.
Ciappina, Marcelo F.
contents Orbital angular momentum (OAM) light beams for high-order harmonic generation (HHG) provide an additional degree of freedom to study the light-matter interaction at ultrafast timescales. A more sophisticated configuration is a perfect optical vortex (POV) beam, a light beam with a helical wavefront characterized by a phase singularity at its center and an azimuthal phase variation. POV beams are characterized by a radial profile which is independent of the OAM. Here we study the non-perturbative process of gas-phase HHG using a linearly polarized POV beam. We observe that the harmonics are emitted with similar divergence due the perfectness of the POV-driven harmonics. Furthermore, the topological charge upscaling is rigorously followed. We show that a POV beam is more advantageous than that of the Laguerre-Gaussian beam for cases where a large topological charge with a small core size is required. Our research establishes a pathway for producing bright structured extreme ultraviolet (XUV) coherent radiation sources--a pivotal tool with multifaceted applications across various technological domains.
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spellingShingle High-Order Harmonic Generation Driven by Perfect Optical Vortex Beams: Exploring the Orbital Angular Momentum Upscaling Law
Das, Bikash Kumar
Granados, C.
Krüger, M.
Ciappina, Marcelo F.
Optics
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) light beams for high-order harmonic generation (HHG) provide an additional degree of freedom to study the light-matter interaction at ultrafast timescales. A more sophisticated configuration is a perfect optical vortex (POV) beam, a light beam with a helical wavefront characterized by a phase singularity at its center and an azimuthal phase variation. POV beams are characterized by a radial profile which is independent of the OAM. Here we study the non-perturbative process of gas-phase HHG using a linearly polarized POV beam. We observe that the harmonics are emitted with similar divergence due the perfectness of the POV-driven harmonics. Furthermore, the topological charge upscaling is rigorously followed. We show that a POV beam is more advantageous than that of the Laguerre-Gaussian beam for cases where a large topological charge with a small core size is required. Our research establishes a pathway for producing bright structured extreme ultraviolet (XUV) coherent radiation sources--a pivotal tool with multifaceted applications across various technological domains.
title High-Order Harmonic Generation Driven by Perfect Optical Vortex Beams: Exploring the Orbital Angular Momentum Upscaling Law
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19591