Promises and challenges of high-energy vortex states collisions

IP Ivanov - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Vortex states of photons, electrons, and other particles are non-plane-wave solutions of the
corresponding wave equation with helicoidal wave fronts. These states possess an intrinsic …

Production of polarized particle beams via ultraintense laser pulses

T Sun, Q Zhao, K Xue, ZW Lu, LL Ji, F Wan… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - Springer
High-energy spin-polarized electron, positron, and γ-photon beams have many significant
applications in the study of material properties, nuclear structure, particle physics, and high …

Hollow plasma acceleration driven by a relativistic reflected hollow laser

WP Wang, C Jiang, H Dong, XM Lu, JF Li, RJ Xu… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
In order to address the present difficulty in experimentally generating the relativistic
Laguerre-Gaussian laser, primarily due to damage caused to optical modulators, a high …

High-order femtosecond vortices up to the 30th order generated from a powerful mode-locked Hermite-Gaussian laser

H Liu, L Yan, H Chen, X Liu, H Liu, SH Chew… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Femtosecond vortex beams are of great scientific and practical interest because of their
unique phase properties in both the longitudinal and transverse modes, enabling multi …

Magnetic field generation in plasma waves driven by copropagating intense twisted lasers

Y Shi, J Vieira, R Trines, R Bingham, BF Shen… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We present a new magnetic field generation mechanism in underdense plasmas driven by
the beating of two, copropagating, Laguerre-Gaussian orbital angular momentum laser …

Terawatt-class few-cycle short-wave infrared vortex laser

R Feng, J Qian, Y Peng, Y Li, W Li, Y Leng, R Li - Ultrafast Science, 2023 - spj.science.org
As a driving source for many nonlinear vortex phenomena, such as the generation of
isolated attosecond optical vortices, terahertz vortices, etc., terawatt-class few-cycle short …

Ultraclean femtosecond vortices from a tunable high-order transverse-mode femtosecond laser

Z Qiao, L Kong, G Xie, Z Qin, P Yuan, L Qian, X Xu… - Optics Letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Femtosecond optical vortices open a variety of fascinating applications, ranging from
femtosecond micro–nano manipulation to vortex strong-field physics. A basic requirement …

Efficient bright γ-ray vortex emission from a laser-illuminated light-fan-in-channel target

H Zhang, J Zhao, Y Hu, Q Li, Y Lu, Y Cao… - High Power Laser …, 2021 - cambridge.org
X/γ-rays have many potential applications in laboratory astrophysics and particle physics.
Although several methods have been proposed for generating electron, positron, and X/γ …

All-optical edge-enhanced proton imaging driven by an intense vortex laser

WP Wang, H Dong, ZY Shi, C Jiang, Y Xu… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
WP Wang, H. Dong, ZY Shi, C. Jiang, Y. Xu, ZX Zhang, FX Wu, JB Hu, JY Qian, JC Zhu, XY
Liang, YX Leng, RX Li, ZZ Xu; All-optical edge-enhanced proton imaging driven by an …

Spin-polarized proton beam generation from gas-jet targets by intense laser pulses

L Jin, M Wen, X Zhang, A Hützen, J Thomas… - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
A method of generating spin-polarized proton beams from a gas jet by using a multipetawatt
laser is put forward. With currently available techniques of producing prepolarized …