Laser harmonic generation with independent control of frequency and orbital angular momentum
Trines, Raoul and Schmitz, Holger and King, Martin and McKenna, Paul and Bingham, Robert (2024) Laser harmonic generation with independent control of frequency and orbital angular momentum. Nature Communications, 15. 6878. ISSN 2041-1723 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51311-y)
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Abstract
The non-linear optical process of laser harmonic generation (HG) enables the creation of high quality pulses of UV or even X-ray radiation, which have many potential uses at the frontiers of experimental science, ranging from lensless microscopy to ultrafast metrology and chiral science. Although many of the promising applications are enabled by generating harmonic modes with orbital angular momentum (OAM), independent control of the harmonic frequency and OAM level remains elusive. Here we show, through a theoretical approach, validated with 3D simulations, how unique 2-D harmonic progressions can be obtained, with both frequency and OAM level tuned independently, from tailored structured targets in both reflective and transmissive configurations. Through preferential selection of a subset of harmonic modes with a specific OAM value, a controlled frequency comb of circularly polarised harmonics can be produced. Our approach to describe HG, which simplifies both the theoretical predictions and the analysis of the harmonic spectrum, is directly applicable across the full range of HG mechanisms and can be readily applied to investigations of OAM harmonics in other processes, such as OAM cascades in Raman amplification, or the analysis of harmonic progressions in nonlinear optics.
ORCID iDs
Trines, Raoul, Schmitz, Holger, King, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3370-6141, McKenna, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8061-7091 and Bingham, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9843-7635;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 90197 Dates: DateEvent11 August 2024Published26 July 2024AcceptedSubjects: Science > Physics Department: Faculty of Science > Physics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 12 Aug 2024 10:23 Last modified: 03 Oct 2024 00:43 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/90197