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 …

Controlling the polarization and vortex charge of attosecond high-harmonic beams via simultaneous spin–orbit momentum conservation

KM Dorney, L Rego, NJ Brooks, J San Román… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Optical interactions are governed by both spin and angular momentum conservation laws,
which serve as a tool for controlling light–matter interactions or elucidating electron …

Theory of entanglement and measurement in high-order harmonic generation

P Stammer - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Quantum information science and intense laser-matter interaction are two apparently
unrelated fields. Here, we introduce the notion of quantum information theory to intense …

Evidence of depolarization and ellipticity of high harmonics driven by ultrashort bichromatic circularly polarized fields

L Barreau, K Veyrinas, V Gruson, SJ Weber… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
High harmonics generated by counter-rotating laser fields at the fundamental and second
harmonic frequencies have raised important interest as a table-top source of circularly …

Conservation of torus-knot angular momentum in high-order harmonic generation

E Pisanty, L Rego, J San Román, A Picón… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
High-order harmonic generation stands as a unique nonlinear optical up-conversion
process, mediated by a laser-driven electron recollision mechanism, which has been shown …

Tailored orbital angular momentum in high-order harmonic generation with bicircular Laguerre-Gaussian beams

W Paufler, B Böning, S Fritzsche - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We report on a method to generate extreme ultraviolet vortices from high-order harmonic
generation with two-color counter-rotating Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams that carry a well …

High harmonic generation with Laguerre–Gaussian beams

W Paufler, B Böning, S Fritzsche - Journal of Optics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We summarize the development of high harmonic generation (HHG) with linearly polarized
Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) beams and their superpositions to explain the non-perturbative …

Chiral dichroism in bi-elliptical high-order harmonic generation

D Ayuso, P Decleva, S Patchkovskii… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The application of strong bi-elliptically polarized laser fields to the generation of high-order
harmonics in organic molecules offers exceptional opportunities for chiral recognition and …

Control of the geometric phase and nonequivalence between geometric-phase definitions in the adiabatic limit

X Zhu, P Lu, M Lein - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
If the time evolution of a quantum state leads back to the initial state, a geometric phase is
accumulated that is known as the Berry phase for adiabatic evolution or as the Aharonov …

Strong-field control and enhancement of chiral response in bi-elliptical high-order harmonic generation: an analytical model

D Ayuso, P Decleva, S Patchkovskii… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The generation of high-order harmonics in a medium of chiral molecules driven by intense bi-
elliptical laser fields can lead to strong chiroptical response in a broad range of harmonic …