Enhanced spatiotemporal optical vortices and vortex chains from Hermite-Gauss modes with a tilted pulse front
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| author | Porras, Miguel A. Jolly, Spencer W. |
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| contents | Hermite-Gaussian (HG) beams are standard modes delivered by continuous or pulsed lasers systems, and pulse-front tilt is one of the most common, detrimental or beneficial, spatiotemporal couplings affecting ultrashort pulses. Combining them, we show that focusing a pulsed HG beam with a tilt generates an elliptical spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV), or a chain of them. The elliptical STOVs differ from standard STOVs in an additional spatial chirp that is manifested as a wave front temporal rotation, and results in an enhanced transverse orbital angular momentum. The longitudinal field is significantly larger than that of normal STOVs, and may also take the form of an elliptical STOV. Our concept greatly simplifies previous arrangements for the generation of STOVs, whose additional features make them attractive for improving their applications in electron trapping and acceleration, or as driving fields for the generation of higher-order harmonics and other interactions with matter. |
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| spellingShingle | Enhanced spatiotemporal optical vortices and vortex chains from Hermite-Gauss modes with a tilted pulse front Porras, Miguel A. Jolly, Spencer W. Optics Hermite-Gaussian (HG) beams are standard modes delivered by continuous or pulsed lasers systems, and pulse-front tilt is one of the most common, detrimental or beneficial, spatiotemporal couplings affecting ultrashort pulses. Combining them, we show that focusing a pulsed HG beam with a tilt generates an elliptical spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV), or a chain of them. The elliptical STOVs differ from standard STOVs in an additional spatial chirp that is manifested as a wave front temporal rotation, and results in an enhanced transverse orbital angular momentum. The longitudinal field is significantly larger than that of normal STOVs, and may also take the form of an elliptical STOV. Our concept greatly simplifies previous arrangements for the generation of STOVs, whose additional features make them attractive for improving their applications in electron trapping and acceleration, or as driving fields for the generation of higher-order harmonics and other interactions with matter. |
| title | Enhanced spatiotemporal optical vortices and vortex chains from Hermite-Gauss modes with a tilted pulse front |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20483 |