Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Controlling the orbital angular momentum of high harmonic vortices

  • Fanqi Kong,
  • Chunmei Zhang,
  • Frédéric Bouchard,
  • Zhengyan Li,
  • Graham G. Brown,
  • Dong Hyuk Ko,
  • T. J. Hammond,
  • Ladan Arissian,
  • Robert W. Boyd,
  • Ebrahim Karimi,
  • P. B. Corkum

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14970
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Few methods can produce orbital angular momentum beams in the extreme ultraviolet or X-ray, and controlling orbital angular momentum on these beams remains challenging. Here the authors apply wave mixing to a tabletop high-harmonic source and control the topological charge of extreme ultraviolet beams.