Generation of extreme-ultraviolet beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum
Rego, Laura; Dorney, Kevin M.; Brooks, Nathan J.; Nguyen, Quynh L.; Liao, Chen-Ting; San Roman, Julio; Couch, David E.; Liu, Allison; Pisanty, Emilio; Lewenstein, Maciej; Plaja, Luis; Kapteyn, Henry C.; Murnane, Margaret M.; Hernandez-Garcia, Carlos
SCIENCE
2019
VL / 364 - BP / 1253 - EP / +
abstract
Light fields carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) provide powerful capabilities for applications in optical communications, microscopy, quantum optics, and microparticle manipulation. We introduce a property of light beams, manifested as a temporal OAM variation along a pulse: the self-torque of light. Although self-torque is found in diverse physical systems (i.e., electrodynamics and general relativity), it was not realized that light could possess such a property. We demonstrate that extreme-ultraviolet self-torqued beams arise in high-harmonic generation driven by time-delayed pulses with different OAM. We monitor the self-torque of extreme-ultraviolet beams through their azimuthal frequency chirp. This class of dynamic-OAM beams provides the ability for controlling magnetic, topological, and quantum excitations and for manipulating molecules and nanostructures on their natural time and length scales.
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