Control of vortex orientation of ultrashort optical pulses using spatial chirp

2023/08/02 by Porras, Miguel A., Jolly, Spencer W. · 1 citation
#FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2308.01091

Abstract

Introducing a spatial chirp into a pulse with a longitudinal vortex, such as a standard pulsed Laguerre-Gauss beam, results in a vortex pulse with an arbitrary orientation of the line phase singularity between longitudinal and transverse, depending on the amount of chirp. Analytical expressions are given for such pulses with arbitrary topological charge valid at any propagation distance.

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