Scaling law from orbital angular momentum conservation in harmonic and high-order harmonic generation driven by spatiotemporal light fields

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Hauptverfasser: Porras, Miguel A., Barriopedro, Marcos G., Martín-Hernández, Rodrigo
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author Porras, Miguel A.
Barriopedro, Marcos G.
Martín-Hernández, Rodrigo
author_facet Porras, Miguel A.
Barriopedro, Marcos G.
Martín-Hernández, Rodrigo
contents Nonlinear photon upconversion processes driven by diverse forms of structured light are receiving increasing attention. In harmonic and high-order harmonic generation (HG and HHG) with Laguerre-Gauss (LG) beams, linear scaling the driver topological charge (TC) with the harmonic order is equivalent to driver orbital angular momentum (OAM) per photon scaling, and constitutes a proof of OAM conservation. However, with generic driving fields, such as non-LG vortices or spatiotemporal optical vortices, TC and OAM per photon may scale or not in a process in which the OAM is conserved. We find the physical magnitude that scales with generality when the OAM, either longitudinal or transverse, or its intrinsic part, is conserved. This new rule allows for the wealth of phenomena observed in HHG that are unintelligible from the rigid LG rule.
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spellingShingle Scaling law from orbital angular momentum conservation in harmonic and high-order harmonic generation driven by spatiotemporal light fields
Porras, Miguel A.
Barriopedro, Marcos G.
Martín-Hernández, Rodrigo
Optics
Nonlinear photon upconversion processes driven by diverse forms of structured light are receiving increasing attention. In harmonic and high-order harmonic generation (HG and HHG) with Laguerre-Gauss (LG) beams, linear scaling the driver topological charge (TC) with the harmonic order is equivalent to driver orbital angular momentum (OAM) per photon scaling, and constitutes a proof of OAM conservation. However, with generic driving fields, such as non-LG vortices or spatiotemporal optical vortices, TC and OAM per photon may scale or not in a process in which the OAM is conserved. We find the physical magnitude that scales with generality when the OAM, either longitudinal or transverse, or its intrinsic part, is conserved. This new rule allows for the wealth of phenomena observed in HHG that are unintelligible from the rigid LG rule.
title Scaling law from orbital angular momentum conservation in harmonic and high-order harmonic generation driven by spatiotemporal light fields
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08263