Optical spatiotemporal vortices

C Wan, A Chong, Q Zhan - Elight, 2023 - Springer
Spatiotemporal vortices of light, featuring transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) and
energy circulation in the spatiotemporal domain, have received increasing attention recently …

Light–matter interaction empowered by orbital angular momentum: Control of matter at the micro-and nanoscale

A Porfirev, S Khonina, A Kuchmizhak - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is an important feature of structured
electromagnetic fields exhibiting non-uniform spatial distribution. In contrast to a spin …

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

M Chergui, M Beye, S Mukamel, C Svetina… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of
extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense …

Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light: a tutorial

Q Zhan - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulses with sophisticated structures on demand is one
major goal of the everlasting pursuit of ultrafast information transmission and processing as …

Ultrafast chirality: the road to efficient chiral measurements

D Ayuso, AF Ordonez, O Smirnova - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Today we are witnessing the electric–dipole revolution in chiral measurements. Here we
reflect on its lessons and outcomes, such as the perspective on chiral measurements using …

Molecular chirality and its monitoring by ultrafast x-ray pulses

JR Rouxel, S Mukamel - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Major advances in X-ray sources including the development of circularly polarized and
orbital angular momentum pulses make it possible to probe matter chirality at …

Maximum helical dichroism enabled by an exceptional point in non-Hermitian gradient metasurfaces

X Li, C Hu, Y Tian, Y Liu, H Chen, Y Xu, MH Lu, Y Fu - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Helical dichroism (HD) utilizing unbounded orbital angular momentum degree of freedom,
has provided an important means of exploring chiral effects in diverse wave systems …

Optical chirality of vortex beams at the nanoscale

D Green, KA Forbes - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work we undertake a systematic study of the optical chirality density of Laguerre-
Gaussian and Bessel laser beams tightly focused into nanoscale volumes. In particular we …

Emerging tailored light sources for studying chirality and symmetry

D Habibović, KR Hamilton, O Neufeld… - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ultrashort laser pulses are unique tools to trigger and probe the fastest charge dynamics in
matter, allowing the investigation of fundamental physical phenomena with unprecedented …

Ultrafast X-ray probes of elementary molecular events

D Keefer, SM Cavaletto, JR Rouxel… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Elementary events that determine photochemical outcomes and molecular functionalities
happen on the femtosecond and subfemtosecond timescales. Among the most ubiquitous …