Intense attosecond pulses carrying orbital angular momentum using laser plasma interactions

J. W. Wang; M. Zepf; S. G. Rykovanov

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13357-1

Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Intense attosecond pulses carrying orbital angular momentum using laser plasma interactions

J. W. Wang,
M. Zepf,
S. G. Rykovanov

Affiliations

J. W. Wang: State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
M. Zepf: Helmholtz Institute Jena
S. G. Rykovanov: Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13357-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Vortices in light fields are of growing importance in the XUV and X-ray ranges. Here the authors show by simulations that high harmonics and attosecond pulses, generated while irradiating a deformed thin foil with circularly-polarized Gaussian laser pulses, carry a well-defined orbital angular momentum.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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