Optical vortices 30 years on: OAM manipulation from topological charge to multiple singularities

Y Shen, X Wang, Z Xie, C Min, X Fu, Q Liu… - Light: Science & …, 2019 - nature.com
Thirty years ago, Coullet et al. proposed that a special optical field exists in laser cavities
bearing some analogy with the superfluid vortex. Since then, optical vortices have been …

Advances in laser-plasma interactions using intense vortex laser beams

Y Shi, X Zhang, A Arefiev, B Shen - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2024 - Springer
Low-intensity light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), commonly known as
vortex beams, have garnered significant attention due to promising applications in areas …

Orbital angular momentum reversal and asymmetry in acoustic vortex beam reflection

Z Zou, R Lirette, L Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We present acoustic modeling, measurements, and interpretation of the angular momentum
carried in an ultrasonic vortex beam that is obliquely reflected off a flat water-air interface …

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 …

Extreme ultraviolet fractional orbital angular momentum beams from high harmonic generation

A Turpin, L Rego, A Picón, J San Román… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We investigate theoretically the generation of extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) beams carrying
fractional orbital angular momentum. To this end, we drive high-order harmonic generation …

High-harmonic generation and spin-orbit interaction of light in a relativistic oscillating window

L Yi - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
When a high power laser beam irradiates a small aperture on a solid foil target, the strong
laser field drives surface plasma oscillation at the periphery of this aperture, which acts as a …

Relativistic high-order harmonic generation of spatiotemporal optical vortices

ZY Chen, R Hu, S Zhang, T Yuan - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
It is well known that light can possess spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular
momentum (OAM) in the longitudinal direction. Interesting novel light with transverse SAM or …

Vortex harmonic generation by circularly polarized Gaussian beam interacting with tilted target

L Zhang, B Shen, Z Bu, X Zhang, L Ji, S Huang… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
When a circularly polarized (CP) Gaussian beam normally irradiates a solid plasma target,
the spin angular momentum of the CP beam transforms into the orbital angular momentum …

Vortex beam manipulation through a tunable plasma-ferrite metamaterial

D Nobahar, S Khorram, JD Rodrigues - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
This paper is devoted to the study of vortex beam transmission from an adjustable
magnetized plasma-ferrite structure with negative refraction index. We use the angular …

Intense harmonic generation driven by a relativistic spatiotemporal vortex beam

L Zhang, L Ji, B Shen - High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2022 - cambridge.org
Spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) pulses carrying purely transverse intrinsic orbital
angular momentum (TOAM) are attracting increasing attention because the TOAM provides …