• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 12, Issue 10, 2409 (2024)
Jiahao Dong1, Liang Xu1,6,*, Yiqi Fang2, Hongcheng Ni3..., Feng He4,5, Songlin Zhuang1 and Yi Liu1,5,7,*|Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • 2Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
  • 4Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education) and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 5CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 6e-mail: liangxu2021@usst.edu.cn
  • 7e-mail: yi.liu@usst.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.528051 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jiahao Dong, Liang Xu, Yiqi Fang, Hongcheng Ni, Feng He, Songlin Zhuang, Yi Liu, "Scheme for generation of spatiotemporal optical vortex attosecond pulse trains," Photonics Res. 12, 2409 (2024) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The realization of spatiotemporal vortex structure of various physical fields with transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) has attracted much attention and is expected to expand the research scope and open new opportunities in their respective fields. Here we present theoretically the first, to the best of our knowledge, study on the generation of attosecond pulse trains featuring a spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) structure by a two-color femtosecond light field, with each color carrying transverse OAM. Through careful optimization of relative phase and intensity ratio, we validate the efficient upconversion of the infrared pulse into its tens of order harmonics, showing that each harmonic preserves a corresponding intact topological charge. This unique characteristic enables the synthesis of an extreme ultraviolet attosecond pulse train with transverse OAM. In addition, we reveal that ionization depletion plays an outsize role therein. Our studies pave the way for the generation and utilization of light fields with STOV in the attosecond regime.
    E(X,Y,Z,ωFWt)=E0N0(X2/wX2+ξ2/wξ2)|lFW|/2e(X2/wX2+Y2/wY2+ξ2/wξ2)ei(ωFWtkFWZlφf).

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    itΨ(X,x,t)=[22+V0(x)iA(X,t)]Ψ(X,x,t),

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    E(X,t)=E(X,ωFWt)+E(X,ωTHt+ϕ)=N0(X2/wX2+ξ2/wξ2)|lFW|/2e(X2/wX2+ξ2/wξ2)×[E0FWei(ωFWtlFWφf)+E0THei(ωTHtlTHφf+ϕ)],

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    a(X,t)=Ψ(X,x,t)|V0(x)xE(X,t)|Ψ(X,x,t).

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    S˜(X,ω)=|a˜(X,ω)|2=|a(X,t)eiωtdt|2.

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    P(X,t)=|ω1ω2a˜(X,ω)eiωtdω|2,

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    l=2Im(ctEX*EX/X)dtdXEX*EXdtdX,

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    AADK(t)=4|E(t)|exp[2|3E(t)|].(A1)

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    I=|j=1qEj|2=Ast2{q+2n=1q1m=n+1qcos[(ωmωn)t(lmln)φf]}.(B1)

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    I=qAst2+2Ast2{(q1)cos(2ωFWt2φf)+(q2)cos[2(2ωFWt2φf)]++2cos[(q2)(2ωFWt2φf)]+cos[(q1)(2ωFWt2φf)]}.(B2)

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    I=qAst2+2Ast2{(q1)cosΩ+(q2)cos2Ω++2cos[(q2)Ω]+cos[(q1)Ω]}.(B3)

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    D(ω)+AionApropAreceiωtdt.(C1)

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    tBtR[A(τ)A(tB)]dτ=0.(C2)

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    Aion(tB)=KAADK(tB)exp[tBKAADK(t)dt],(C3)

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    Aprop(tB,tR)=(2πitRtBiε)32exp[iS(tB,tR)],(C4)

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    Arec(tR)=d*[p(tR)],(C5)

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    D(ω)Σ(tB,tR)(2πitRtBiε)32KAADK(tB)exp[tBKAADK(t)dt]×exp[iS(tB,tR)+iωt]d*[p(tR)].(C6)

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    Jiahao Dong, Liang Xu, Yiqi Fang, Hongcheng Ni, Feng He, Songlin Zhuang, Yi Liu, "Scheme for generation of spatiotemporal optical vortex attosecond pulse trains," Photonics Res. 12, 2409 (2024)
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