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Laser beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) provide an additional degree of freedom and have found wide applications ranging from optical communications and optical manipulation to quantum information. The efficient generation and…

When a relativistic laser pulse with high photon density interacts with a specially tailored thin foil target, a strong torque is exerted on the resulting spiral-shaped foil plasma, or light fan. Because of its structure, the latter can…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yin Shi , Baifei Shen , Lingang Zhang , Xiaomei Zhang , Wenpeng Wang , Zhizhan Xu

We use the T-matrix formalism in combination with the method of far-field matching to evaluate the optical force exerted by Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) light beams on a spherical (Mie) particle. For both non-vortex and optical vortex LG beams,…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-06 Alexei D. Kiselev , Dmytro O. Plutenko

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) as a consequence of a singularity in their phase profile. In this work, we probe the OAM of LG beams using a movable single slit. We invoke the method of stationary phase to…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-15 Jadze Princeton Narag , Nathaniel Hermosa

We predict a non-thermal magneto-optical effect for magnetic insulators subject to intense light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). Using a classical approach to second harmonic generation in non-linear media with specific symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Thomas Bose , Jamal Berakdar

Twisted Laguerre-Gaussian lasers, with orbital angular momentum and characterised by doughnut shaped intensity profiles, provide a transformative set of tools and research directions in a growing range of fields and applications, from…

Low-intensity light beams carrying Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM), commonly known as vortex beams, have garnered significant attention due to promising applications in areas ranging from optical trapping to communication. In recent years,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Yin Shi , Xiaomei Zhang , Alexey Arefiev , Baifei Shen

Laser-triggered ionization injection is a promising way of generating controllable high-quality electrons in plasma-based acceleration. We show that ionization injection of electrons into a fully nonlinear plasma wave wake using a laser…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xinlu Xu , Jorge Vieira , Mark Hogan , Chan Joshi , Warren Mori

A linearly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian (LP-LG) laser beam with a twist index $l = -1$ has field structure that fundamentally differs from the field structure of a conventional linearly polarized Gaussian beam. Close to the axis of the LP-LG…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Yin Shi , David R Blackman , Ping Zhu , Alexey Arefiev

In this paper, we get the 1D approximate analytical solution of the plasma electrostatic wake driven by the laser, and get the oscillating frequency of the wake modified by the nonlinear high order terms, and find that the frequency depends…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-03-29 Xiongwei Zhu

We study the interaction of laser pulses carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) with structural asymmetry quantum dot molecules characterized by four energy levels. We demonstrate how the inter-dot tunneling endows exchange of optical…

A tens of Tesla quasi-static axial magnetic field can be produced in the interaction of a short intense laser beam carrying an Orbital Angular Momentum with an underdense plasma. Three-dimensional "Particle In Cell" simulations and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 R. Nuter , Ph. Korneev , I. Thiele , V. Tikhonchuk

The dynamic process of a laser or particle beam propagating from vacuum into underdense plasma has been investigated theoretically. Our theoretical model combines a Lagrangian fluid model with the classic quasistatic wakefield theory. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Ronghao Hu , Haiyang Lu , Yinren Shou , Jinqing Yu , Chia-erh Chen , Xueqing Yan

The problem of light waves interaction with charged particles becomes more and more complex starting with the case of plane waves, where the analytical solution is well known, to more natural, though more complicated situations which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Egor Dmitriev , Philipp Korneev

We experimentally demonstrate the generation of customized perfect Laguerre-Gaussian (PLG) beams whose intensity maxima localized around any desired curves. The principle is to act appropriate algebraic functions on the angular spectra of…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-04 Chengyuan Wang , Yun Chen , Jinwen Wang , Xin Yang , Hong Gao , Fuli Li

We introduce a novel and simple modulation technique to tailor optical beams with a customized amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM). The technique is based on the modulation of the angular spectrum of a seed beam, which allows us to…

Spin and orbital angular momentum of an optical beam are two independent parameters that exhibit distinct effects on mechanical objects. However, when laser beams with angular momentum interact with plasmas, one can observe the interplay…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-20 C. K. Huang , C. J. Zhang , Z. Nie , K. A. Marsh , C. E. Clayton , C. Joshi

Laser-driven ion accelerators have the advantages of compact size, high density, and short bunch duration over conventional accelerators. Nevertheless, it is still challenging to generate ion beams with quasi-monoenergetic peak and low…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Jia-Xiang Gao , Meng Liu , Wei-Min Wang

In studies of interaction of matter with laser fields of extreme intensity there are two limiting cases of a multi-beam setup maximizing either the electric field or the magnetic field. In this work attention is paid to the optimal…

Nitrogen ions pumped by intense femtosecond laser pulses give rise to optical amplification in the ultraviolet range. Here, we demonstrated that a seed light pulse carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) can be significantly amplified in…